Another excellent example of this very unusual mode of interment--this time in a sitting posture--was discovered by some tufa-getters, and examined by Mr. Bateman, in Monsal Dale, and is shown on the accompanying engraving, fig. 16, which exhibits a section of the rock, etc.; and shows the position of the skeleton, and the manner in which the cavity containing the body had been filled up with the river sand. The body in this case, as in the last, had been placed in the cavity, in a sitting position, and must have been so placed from an opening in front. The cavity was ten or twelve feet above the bed of the river Wye, and above it were some five feet in thickness of solid tufa rock, while, from the face of the rock, the cavity was about twelve feet. The body may therefore be said to have been entombed in the middle of the solid rock. The roof of the cavity when found was beautifully covered with stalactites. The skeleton was that of a young person, and near it were found a flint and some other matters. The cavity was filled to part way up the skull with sand. [Illustration: Fig. 16.] Another example of interment in a sitting posture was discovered some years ago, at Kells in Ireland. These will be sufficient to show the curious character of this mode of interment. [Illustration: Fig. 17.] Several examples of double interments, besides those described above, have been discovered in different localities. One of the most curious is the one in the largest cist, in fig. 17. In this cist, which is composed of four upright slabs of stone,[9] were the skeletons of a man and woman, and the remains of two children; the family having probably been immolated at the death of its head, and all buried together. A small urn was found in the same cist; and in the same barrow, in other portions which were excavated, as shown in the plan, were other interments, both by cremation and by inhumation. [Illustration: Fig. 18.] In No. 9, on fig. 14, an interment of a mother and her child together is shown. Another instance is shown on the next engraving, fig. 18. In this instance the woman was laid in the usual contracted position, on her left side, with her head to the east. Close in front of the breast, lying in the arms in the same contracted position, lay the infant. Some flints and a fragment of pottery were found along with this touching interment. CHAPTER III. Ancient British or Celtic Period--Interment by cremation--Discovery of lead--Burial in urns--Positions of urns--Heaps of burnt bones--Burnt bones enclosed in cloth and skins--Stone cists--Long-Low--Liff’s-Low, etc.--Pit interments--Tree-coffins.