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unable to follow it. In the soil-like matter fillino' this trench were bits 
of animal bone, and many teeth of the ox. 
On June 29th, the workmen while lowering the ground about one 
foot, within the foundations of the new church, at a point 45 
feet due east of the relics discovered under the old tower, destroyed 
the body of a full-sized person. On this discovery being made known 
we examined the ground beneath, and presently found a few burnt 
bones of a young person, a portion of which the workmen had also 
removed. In proceeding downwards through the forced earth of the 
undisturbed portion of the barrow, which here was a little over two 
feet in thickness, and for the most part of clay from a distance, we 
picked up. many hand-struck pieces of foreign flint. Under the clay 
came the natural rubbly chalk surface, which to the practised eye 
seemed to have been entered, and the continued use of the pick soon 
verified this surmise, by discovering the half of a fine large diamond- 
shaped arrow-head of black flint, which from its fresh appearance 
might have been made yesterday. As we proceeded downwards a 
little clay was observed, mixed in places with the chalk in the grave, 
and at a depth of three feet into the rock and five feet below the 
floor of the old church, the bottom of an oval grave was reached, on 
which rested the body of a medium-sized adult, pi. ix., fig. 10, 2. 
The head was to the N.W., and the body reposed partly on the back 
and partly on the right side ; the right arm was doubled by the side, 
with the hand on the neck and left shoulder ; wliilst the left arm was 
bent at a right angle with hand under the right elbow. The thighs 
were straight in a line with the body, and the legs below were closely 
bent back at the knees, with the feet near to, and partly under, the 
the left side of the pelvis, a very uncommon position. Flat pieces of 
chalk were piled on the floor of the grave in the form of a trough, 
and the body lay therein. Under the body, but mostly about the 
head and shoulders, we observed dark matter. In front of the face 
stood an elegantly-shaped food vase, pi. x., inch high, taste- 
fully ornamented, and at the crown of the head were three small 
hand-struck splinters of flint. The femur measured 17 inches, the 
tibia 14 inches, and are of rather slender form. 
Again, July 22nd, 1870, the workmen in excavating for the erec- 
