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oblique direction between the jaws. This weapon appeared 
to have entered the neck of the individual immediately 
under the left ear and passed up into the interior of the 
mouth, in the right corner of which, within the teeth, the 
point of the spear was lodged. The skeleton was laid upon 
its back and deposited in a trench dug in the chalk rock, 
about two feet wide, eighteen inches deep, and rather more 
than five-and-a-half feet in length. The legs were crossed 
and the head lay to the south-east. On the natural surface 
of the chalk surrounding the space containing the skeleton, 
were twelve circular holes about nine inches in diameter and 
twelve inches deep, in which were deposited calcined bones 
and earth with particles of charcoal. These holes in the 
solid chalk rock were a peculiar feature, which in all my 
experience I had never observed before, and for what precise 
purpose they may have been made it is difficult to conjecture, 
though from the contents just enumerated it is not 
improbable they might have been to receive the ashes of 
some relatives, or those of sacrifice or food offerings, which 
the friends of the deceased wished to deposit in his last 
resting-place, a custom by no means uncommon in primaeval 
sepulture ; but, in such instances, the materials for this 
purpose are generally deposited in earthern vessels made 
expressly for that purpose, and which frequently occur in early 
British and Roman graves. An urn of this description was 
also found with the skeleton. It was, however, broken, but 
had contained ashes, charcoal, and a small quantity of burned 
earth. The materials of which the urn was made appeared 
to be a mixture of clay, oxide of iron, mica, and pounded 
quartz. It had evidently been turned on a wheel, and after- 
wards, while moist, rudely finished by hand. In shape it 
resembled in many respects the larger British urn, figured in 
Philips' s Mountains, Rivers, and Sea Coast of Yorkshire. 
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