CHAP. X.]
BURIAL CUSTOMS.
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were collected into a funeral urn, usually from twelve to eighteen inches high, and placed in a chamber,
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Early_Man_in_Britain_and_His_Place_in_the_Tertiary_Period_-_Fig._140.%E2%80%94Stone_Axe-hammer%2C_East_Kennet.png/400px-Early_Man_in_Britain_and_His_Place_in_the_Tertiary_Period_-_Fig._140.%E2%80%94Stone_Axe-hammer%2C_East_Kennet.png)
Fig. 140.—Stone Axe-hammer, East Kennet, 23.
either standing upright with its mouth covered by a slab of stone or by flint, or with its mouth downwards as in the secondary interment in the Winterslow