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where the skeleton was lying doubled up at one end, the rest 
of the kist being vacant. On the whole, the body is oftenest 
laid upon the left side, but there is no rule as to the direction 
in which the head has been placed, for I have found it to all 
the points of the compass. "With the dead were deposited, in 
many cases, various objects, — vessels of pottery, daggers of 
bronze, awls and pins of that metal, so-called knives, scrapers, 
and arrow-heads of flint ; and ornaments, such as bronze 
armlets, rings, and necklaces of jet, amber, glass, and shells. 
In a few rare instances gold articles have been found : I have 
seen, from Northumberland, a necklace of fifteen hollow gold 
beads. It might be expected that as a man was buried with 
some of his equipment, that the most important articles of it 
would be found buried with their owner ; such, however, is 
not the case. I know of no well- authenticated instance where 
a sword has ever occurred, and the spear is almost always 
wanting ; in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries, on the contrary, every 
free man has his spear laid beside him, whilst the head of 
each village has his sword. The axe, if the celt is to be so 
considered, has never been found, though a few specimens of 
the flat axe-head have turned up. Why this should be I 
cannot understand, nor can I offer any conjecture how it 
happens that one person has been buried with some weapon, 
implement, or ornament, whilst others in the same barrow, 
and those persons evidently, from their position in it, of 
greater importance, have been laid in the grave without any 
adjunct. 
The vessels of pottery which accompan}^ an unburnt body 
are of a different type and make from those which contain 
the bones of a burnt body ; they are of thinner ware, better 
baked and more profusely ornamented, the markings, which 
form varied patterns, usually extend over the whole surface, 
whilst in the cinerary urn, the ornamentation, generally 
made by impressions of twisted thong, is confined to the rim, 
