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The other two objects were also bronze fibula?, in the shape 
of a plain ring, and exactly resembling each other, (fig. 3.) 
Fig. 3. Circular Roman Fibula. 
These three articles are undoubtedly Roman, and I should 
think not of the earlier period of the occupation of our 
Island. 
The other of these two barrows, which was next opened, 
closely resembled the former in its construction, though the 
hollow in the chalk was not quite so deep, but nothing 
further was found in it except a few fragments of bones, 
with charcoal, burnt earth, a small quantity of dark-coloured 
fatty earth, and four flint implements. 
. At the beginning of May, Mr. Tindall opened a fourth 
tumulus, in another field at some distance from the others, 
and on the highest ground in the lordship, which was 
attended with discoveries of a somewhat remarkable charac- 
ter. It was nearly forty yards in circumference, and as the 
shortest way of arriving at the probable place of deposit, 
the workmen were directed to sink a shaft from the top. In 
their passage down they found " a remarkable quantity of 
boulder or cobble stones, placed in the same manner as a 
grave is generally sodded up in a churchyard, and at each 
corner there were five stones placed in a horizontal line," 
