Midland naturalist . , by width. The surrounding earth being carefully removed, and the covertaken off the cist, which was quite free from soil, was found to contain a quantity of calcined human bones, and amongst these two flintimplements, one somewhat triangular and having three sharp edges, theother flat with one sharp edge, also a pin made from leg bone of a deer,and a piece of iron pyrites. At the west end were two urns; of thesethe more elegant one is 4§in. high, 9^in. in diameter at its widest part,and 3Jin. at the base. It is slightly ornamented on the top of the rimby three lin
Midland naturalist . , by width. The surrounding earth being carefully removed, and the covertaken off the cist, which was quite free from soil, was found to contain a quantity of calcined human bones, and amongst these two flintimplements, one somewhat triangular and having three sharp edges, theother flat with one sharp edge, also a pin made from leg bone of a deer,and a piece of iron pyrites. At the west end were two urns; of thesethe more elegant one is 4§in. high, 9^in. in diameter at its widest part,and 3Jin. at the base. It is slightly ornamented on the top of the rimby three lines, (as if a piece of string had been pressed on the soft clay,)and on the body by sets of six lines, some placed obliquely, others vertically. * After writing the above, a genteman in the neighbourhood assured me that heremembered seeing some of the stones erect when he was a boy. + There were nine stones around the sides, one on the top, and three forming thefloor. J Batemans Vestiges of Derbyshire. AEBOR LOW. 285. (From tumulus at Arbor Low, one-third real size.)
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