Chartham Down Grave B

In the barrow B was found an urn of red earth, three and a half inches wide at top, six inches in the belly, and three inches and three-quarters at the bottom; and in a large black urn there were some burnt bones[1]. In the urns were ashes mixed with chalk. No arms were found here.[1] I make no doubt, but that the large black urn was an ossuary, or bone urn, which had been disturbed and broken, it is likely, in digging the grave for the person last interred. The other urns were no more than what are very frequently met with in the graves with skeletons. It is no uncommon thing to find cremation and humation practiced in the same burial-ground, nay, in the same grave, as here. It is a manifest proof that the ground was put to that use for a great number of years, perhaps for ages. - B. F.