Sibertswold Downs Grave 164

Tumulus, much as the last; grave full four feet deep. Bones almost gone; the coffin had passed the fire. The blade of a knife. Both at the head and at the feet was a very large ossuary, or bone urn, both of which, though they were deposited deeper than the bottom of this grave, had been broken in pieces as they stood (and for the purpose, too, as one would think), when the grave was dug for the person last deposited. In getting down to the skeleton were found some large nails; part of a pair of iron shears, as before; a small brass cochleare, or spoon [M 6516]; several sherds of a very large ossuary; some pieces of smaller urns, and many pieces of burnt bones; part of an infundibuliform stone cover of an urn, as before; several oyster shells and mussel shells; and the bones of an ox or calf, or perhaps of both.