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small flat-bottomed vessel of a dark colour, plain pottery, near 
to which was placed the leg-bone [humerus] of a small pig. 
Close to the lumbar vertebrae were two pieces of a much- 
corroded article of iron (fig. i) with a hole through one end— 
probably a belt-fastener. The skull is large and broad, and 
all the bones denote a strong-framed male person. 
The mounds Nos. 2 to 10 inclusive adjoined No. 1, and most 
of them were situated a little nearer to the west corner of the 
wood. They varied in size from 10 feet to 22 feet in diameter, 
and from 15 inches to 30 inches in height. The graves were 
all oval or oblong with rounded corners ; and though 
they varied in size, they averaged about the dimensions of the 
one first described. Except No. 6, which had been previously 
opened, they all contained skeletons on the floor of the grave, 
with legs much drawn up, and in the positions described in 
the accompanying table (page 8). Of the 8 bodies included 
in these nine mounds, 6 were adults and 2 were children. 
The bodies in Nos. 1, 3, 4, and 10 were accompanied by a 
small and much-corroded article of iron, more or less 
resembling fig. 1 (probably dress-fasteners) lying either on the 
neck, chest, or loins. 
The next five mounds were near the south-east corner of the 
wood, and they varied in size from 15 feet to 33 feet in 
diameter, and from 16 inches to 3J feet in height. 
No. 11 is the largest mound of the whole group. It con¬ 
tained at the centre an oval grave, pointing nearly north and 
south, and measuring about 7 feet by feet. It was only 2 
feet in depth. On the floor of the grave lay the much-crushed 
body of a strong-boned person—probably a female—placed 
on the left side, with the head to south-south-west, the legs 
were drawn up to a right angle with the trunk. At the back 
of the head lay a very beautiful pin (Plate III.), 5 inches long, 
which had imparted a green stain to the occipital and right 
temporal bones. 
The head of the pin is probably a faithful copy of the wheel 
of the British chariot. It is skilfully inlaid with white vitreous 
enamel, placed in a circular groove running round the rim on 
both sides of the wheel-shaped head. A similar groove, which 
has also contained enamel, runs nearly round the circumference, 
