Caburn, to be opened. Some of them contained skeletons only; others enclosed urns filled with burnt human bones. The skeleton barrows were evidently of more recent date than those which contained the urns; the skeletons were laid with great care in an excavation in the chalk, generally at the depth of four or five feet beneath the turf. On the northernmost point of the hill, overlooking Glynde-bourne, six or seven skeletons were found, lying in separate excavations, near each other: each of the skeletons had a knife1 (fig. 3, Pl. IV.) in the left hand, and most of them were surrounded by a circle of large flints, placed with great care around the body. With few exceptions, the urn barrows contained but one urn, which was generally inverted, the mouth being placed on the smooth surface of the chalk rock, or on a piece of slate or sandstone. The general form of the urn was that of fig. 19, Pl. V. The bones enclosed in them were reduced to very small fragments, evidently by the effect of fire: the teeth were generally in a perfect state, and some of them were indisputably those of children.

A tumulus situated on the slope of the hill to the north-east of Ox-settle bottom, contained a small skeleton and two large urns, full of burnt human bones, an assemblage which is completely at variance with the opinions of our best antiquaries, who contend, that the simple interment of the body, and that of urn burial took place at distant epochs. Fig. 22. Pl. V. represents a horizontal section of the tumulus, the skeleton lying in the middle, and an urn on each side of it. The skeleton was in a good state of preservation, and from the magnitude of the bones, it would appear that the individual must have been nearly six feet four inches high. The urn on the left side was broken to pieces in digging, and its contents were scattered amongst the loose earth and ashes which surrounded it; but on careful research, it appeared to have contained only burnt human bones. The urn on the right hand, which was thirty-six inches in circumference, (see Pl. V., fig. 15.), was nearly full of calcined bones, with which were enclosed the following relics :

Plate III., fig. 1 and 2, beads of jet.

Fig. 4, a green porcelain pendant amulet.

Fig. 5, a brass ring, which can be extended to fit a finger of any size. A silver one of the same kind is figured in Nenia Britannica, Pl. XV. fig. 3. Fig. 6, an umbo of jet, having a circular grove round the margin.

Plate V., fig. 1, 2, 3, beads of amber.

Fig. 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, beads of jet.

'Similar ones are figured in Nenia Britannica, Pl. I. fig. 7., Pl. XIII. fig. 4.

Fig. 6, a large amber bead. The amber has lost its transparency, and resembles a piece of ochre.

Fig. 13, a portion of an ivory, or bone armilla.

Fig. 14, green porcelain beads in the form of a pulley.

From this assemblage of ornaments, it seems probable that the remains in the urns were those of females.

A very large barrow on the hill between Firle and Alfriston, near Firle point, was opened under the direction of Mr. Mantell, in January, 1820. It contained two skeletons; one of them was lying in a recumbent posture; the other extended. A brass pin,' of excellent workmanship (fig. 12, Pl. III.), the small earthen patera (fig. 21, Pl. V.), three inches and a half in diameter, and an urn with bones, were found in it. The pin and small vessel were near the head of one of the skeletons. Another urn, obtained from this tumulus, is in the possession of Lord Gage. The skeleton of a child was found in the same barrow, and near it an urn of coarse workmanship, containing bones. Near this tumulus a small brass of Domitian was found, and the amulet of Druid sandstone, fig. 11, Pl. IV.

In August, of the same year, several labourers were employed by Mr. Mantell, to dig in Ox-settle bottom, when several urns were found of the form of fig. 16, Pl. V. The one figured in the plate was twenty-four inches in circumference. It contained the burnt bones of a young person, and a brass style or pin, (fig. 7, Pl. IV.). Many others of a similar shape were at the same time discovered.

The workmen employed in 1820, in digging flints on Falmer Hill, turned up several urns of coarse earthenware, in the field opposite the house then occupied by Mr. Gill. Fig. 20, Pl. V. represents an earthen vessel capable of holding nearly a pint, which was obtained from a barrow on Falmer Hill.

Pl. V. fig. 19, an urn thirty inches in circumference, containing calcined human bones, from a tumulus on Offham hill.

Fig. 17, a Roman urn thirty-two inches in circumference, enclosing human bones, from a tumulus near Firle Beacon.

Fig. 10, 11, 12, are composed of a mixed metal, apparently tin and copper, the surface covered by a green ærugo. A considerable number of these remains have been found in a tumulus on Beddingham Hill. Similar ones are figured in Pl. XXIII. vol. 1. of Strutt's Horda Angel-cynnan. They were clasps, or buckles, used by the Romans, and also by the Saxons. Some of them were

'Pins similar to the one described were used | of the Empresses, particularly those of the Fausby the Roman ladies in their head dress. They tina, shew the hair entwined round a similar inserved to secure the braid of platted hair. Coins strument.-See Nenia Britannica, p. 74.