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PAVILAND CAVE. 
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also been found by Sir Richard Hoare in these same 
barrows ; and from a passage in Strabo, lib. 4, which Mr. 
Knight has pointed out to me, in which, speaking of the 
small taxes which it was possible to levy on the Britons, 
he specifies their imports to be very insignificant, consist¬ 
ing chiefly of ivory armlets and necklaces, Ligurian stones, 
glass vessels, and other suchlike trifles. The custom of 
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SECTION OF GOAT HOLE, OR PAVILAND CAVE. 
burying with their possessors the ornaments and chief 
utensils of the deceased, is evident from the remains of 
this kind discovered everywhere in the ancient barrows ; 
and this may explain the circumstance of our finding with 
the bones of the woman at Paviland the ivory rods, and 
rings, and nerite shells, which she had probably made use 
of during life. I am at a loss to conjecture what could 
have been the object of collecting the red oxide of iron 
that seems to have been thrown over the body when laid 
