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368 chiefly met with in the south of England. 138.—Bell-shaped Barrow.

139.—Section of Bowl-shaped Barrow, East Kennet, Avebury, Wilts.

In cases of inhumation the dead were usually buried in the contracted posture, as in the oval tumulus at Winterbourne Stoke, along with flint javelin-heads (Figs. 132, 133), and a drinking cup, and in the bowl-shaped barrow at East Kennet, along with a drinking cup figured above (Fig. 127), and a hammer-axe (Fig. 140). Sometimes the body, covered with linen or woollen clothing, rested at full length in a coffin made of the hollow trunk of an oak which had been split in two. Where cremation was practised the ashes of the dead