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burnt animal bone. One portion of the broken leg bone of an ox 
has had a round hole about half an inch in diameter bored 
through it, probably to fit it for some tool. There was also a 
portion of another iron knife, seemingly Anglo-Saxon, nine rusty 
nails and other bits of iron ; fifty-nine pieces of pottery of the same 
kinds (except British) as previously found, and twelve chips of flint. 
Seven cremated interments were taken from a small area on the north 
side of the central excavation. They were all laid on the same plane, 
fourteen feet from the level of the flat top of the barrow. Their 
horizontal position, all under the arched bed of Kimmeridge clay, 
are numbered on the plan (plate viii.) A portion of a bone pin 
(pi. x., fig. 6) was found with Xo. 4, and one of the workmen picked 
up an instrument of flint (pi. ix., fig. 3) chipped to a very sharp 
point. It was found about three feet north of the deposit Xo. 3, and 
on the same level. It was found that there was an inner mound, 
the centre of which did not, as shown in the plan (pi. viii.,) quite 
correspond with the centre of the completed mound. This may have 
happened from the chalk material that formed the upper portion of 
the mound having been quarried from the rising ground to the south, 
and consequently piled more on this side than on the north and dis- 
tant side of the mound. A section (pL vii.) which was obtained from 
measurements of the southern and eastern radius shows this inner 
mound to have a diameter of 75 feet, and to measure 1L feet in 
height, the upper ten to fourteen inches being almost pure Kimmer- 
idge Clay containing no remains, under which was 4^ feet of small 
chalk grit, in which most of the cremated interments were found ; 
and below the chalk grit was a core of clayey soil of a hazel colour, 
mixed with a little chalk grit 5^ feet high in the centre, obtained 
from the adjoining ground. This core was afterwards found to rest 
on the old turf line, and to contain or cover all the inhumed primary 
interments, also a few of the cremated ones. A large heap of chalk 
lying on the south side of the centre grave, from which it had been 
cast, still remained on the old surface line. Fifteen additional 
deposits of burnt bones were found in the same central area in which 
the seven previously named deposits were taken, but at a lower level 
of from two to six feet, reaching downwards from the lower portion 
