Archaeologia cantiana . ult of our la-bours is shown in Plate No. V., and from the descriptionof one of the labourers belonging to the farm, that therehad been a shaw partly covering the place where we weredigging, and a large hillock at the very spot, which hil-lock was levelled when the shaw was removed, it wasevident that we had been working on the base of a tu-mulus, the skeleton being at the centre, and the groupsof pottery round the circumference. The body had beencarefully laid out, with the head to the was not a vestige of arms or ornament, and fromthe length of the
Archaeologia cantiana . ult of our la-bours is shown in Plate No. V., and from the descriptionof one of the labourers belonging to the farm, that therehad been a shaw partly covering the place where we weredigging, and a large hillock at the very spot, which hil-lock was levelled when the shaw was removed, it wasevident that we had been working on the base of a tu-mulus, the skeleton being at the centre, and the groupsof pottery round the circumference. The body had beencarefully laid out, with the head to the was not a vestige of arms or ornament, and fromthe length of the tibia, which I measured at the time(but my note of which I have mislaid), it must have beena person of short stature, possibly a female. A large,rude, semicircular stone was laid across the breast. Thedeposits at a, a, a, were either entire, or the respectivefragments were found together; not so on the other side,at where they were broken and dispersed. Doubt- less the shaw, having covered the groups on the south FULL SIZE. BOTTLE FROM THOMPSONS FIELD PI V.
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