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boar and stag had been the frequent victims of his bow and 
spear. In some cases no mound seems ever to have been 
raised over the dead, at least I have known of many bodies 
being found, where there was nothing to account for its 
destruction, if it ever had existed ; in many of these instances 
a natural swell in the land has been taken advantage of, 
which in itself answered the purpose of a mound. It is also 
likely that it was only over men and women of mark or 
position that the barrow was erected; and indeed had every 
one had such a distinction, almost the whole ground must 
soon have been covered with barrows. I know of two what 
may be called cemeteries, the one of burnt, the other of 
unburnt, bodies. In both cases the burials amounted to a 
very large number, and there was not the slightest indication 
on the surface of the ground that any interments had taken 
place, nor was any article, either weapon or ornament, found 
in any of the graves. Here we seem to have the burial-place 
of the ordinary mass of the population, who had been interred 
without any mound being raised to mark the place of their 
burial, and who may have been too poor to admit of any- 
thing being spared for their after use; though I cannot say 
this seems to me a probable way of accounting for the 
absence of objects in the graves. I have also seen many 
large collections of very small barrows, amongst which was 
one of large size. In the small ones I have never found the 
least indication of a burial; and I believe that they have 
covered unburnt bodies, laid on the surface, which from 
being so little removed from air and wet have gone totally 
to decay. In the large associated barrow one or more cists 
have been found, in many cases containing an urn. The 
whole system of burial seems to imply, as I before observed, 
a belief in a future state of existence, and that differing little 
from the life which had just closed. The man is buried with 
his dagger, arrow, knife, horse, or dog, and very possibly 
