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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN.
[CHAP. X.
chiefly met with in the south of England.[1]
Fig. 138.—Bell-shaped Barrow.
Fig. 139.—Section of Bowl-shaped Barrow, East Kennet, Avebury, Wilts.
In cases of inhumation the dead were usually buried in the contracted posture, as in the oval tumulus at Winterbourne Stoke,[2] along with flint javelin-heads (Figs. 132, 133), and a drinking cup, and in the bowl-shaped barrow at East Kennet, along with a drinking cup figured above (Fig. 127), and a hammer-axe (Fig. 140). Sometimes the body, covered with linen or woollen clothing, rested at full length in a coffin made of the hollow trunk of an oak[3] which had been split in two. Where cremation was practised the ashes of the dead
- ↑ They have been classified by Thurnam, Archæologia, xliii. p. 285.
- ↑ Proceed. Soc. Antiq. S. ii. 427.
- ↑ Gristhorpe, and Scale-house Barrow, Rylstone, Yorks, Hove, near Brighton. Williamson, Tumulus near Gristhorpe. 4to. Scarborough, 1836. Greenwell, British Barrows, p. 375. 8vo. London, 1877. Barclay Phillips, Sussex Archæol. Coll., ix. 119.
