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and radiating as it were from a centre. At the ends of two 
of these lines of stones, which were opposite to each other and 
a yard deeper in the harrow, were found two urns of slightly 
baked earth, containing "a sort of brown paste or fat 
matter," with some pieces of leather and a quantity of 
hair, which Mr. Tindall compares to the hair of a cow. 
The urns, which were below, but not immediately under, 
the stones just alluded to, were placed in hollows in the 
chalk made for their reception. A flat piece of flag-stone 
was placed over one of the urns, and a similar piece of chalk 
over the other, and one of them stood nearly in its original 
upright position, while the other was crushed to pieces. 
There was here also a bowl-shaped hollow in the chalk, 
over which was a layer of ashes, charcoal, and burnt wood. 
Among this was found a piece of leather, some bits of iron 
which appeared to have been nails, and two pieces of flint 
chipped into the form of crescents. It is worthy of remark 
also, that some of the leather was cut and jagged at the 
edges in a manner that would lead us to believe that it had 
belonged to some ornamental part of the dress. 
The fifth tumulus was opened on the 26th of May, by 
a trench cut through it from east to west, about five feet 
wide. About a foot beneath the surface occurred a layer of 
boulders, and under these, burnt bones and earth, and some 
much corroded nails. Mr. Tindall also found here a few 
cinders of mineral coal, about seven pieces of mineral coal 
unburnt, each about the size of a walnut, and one similar bit 
of kennel coal ; and also, which was the most extraordinary 
of all, a piece of a tobacco pipe made of pipeclay. In the 
body of the tumulus were found the branches, remarkably 
well preserved, of what was believed to have been a black- 
thorn tree, and several decayed pieces of wood. 
Tobacco pipes have been found before in very singular 
approximations with objects of remote antiquity, and they 
