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a circular one of neat form, and stood about one
hundred feet to the eastward of the large campani-
formed barrow, called, from its superior size and
elevated situation, Upton-Barrow; its base was
fifty feet in diameter, and its perpendicular height
six feet. A ditch surrounded it. Its composition
appeared to be for the most part vegetable earth;
it must, therefore, have been raised entirely from
the turf of the neighbouring ground, as the chalky
stratum appears immediately beneath this verdant
covering. The workmen opened it by a cut in its
centre, six feet by north and south, by four feet
wide east and west. After paring off the turf on
the surface, a thin stratum of small flints appeared,
which from the manner in which they were placed
seemed to have been spread originally over the
whole of the barrow. From hence to the surface
of the common ground, the mound consisted of
common vegetable earth, mixed with which were
animal bones, and the teeth of horses, oxen, and
swmc. On reaching the level, a circular cavity
appeared cut in the chalky soil, nearly two feet in
diameter, and six or eight inches deep, containing
about half a peck of burned human bones, some
of which were c;;k:incd to powder, and all the others
blanched periecdy white, except a thigh bone and
snoulder blade, which seemed to be half burned
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