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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,

Fig. 140.—Stone Axe-hammer, East Kennet, 2/3.

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