It is the general opinion, that during this period the practice of inhumation, or simple burial, was commoner than that of cremation or burning, though each method was adopted. Over the remains disposed of by the former process, were erected mounds of earth (_tumuli_ or _barrows_), heaps of stone (_cairns_), or cromlechs. There are strong suspicions that the practice of _Suttí_ was recognized. Around a skeleton, more or less entire, are often found, at regular distances, the ashes of bodies that were burnt; just as if the chief was interred in the flesh, but his subordinates given over to the flames. The posture is, frequently, one which, on the other side of the Atlantic, has called forth numerous remarks. Throughout America, it was observed by Dr. Morton, that one of the most usual forms of burial was to place the corpse in a half upright position, or a sitting attitude, with the knees and hams bent, and the arms folded on the legs. Now this is a common posture in Britain--a clear proof of the extent to which similar practices are independent of imitation. If any ornaments be found with the corpse, they are chiefly of cannel coal. The implements are all of stone, or bone--the celt, the arrow, the spear-head, the adze, and the mallet. What was the physical aspect of the country at this time? The present, _minus_ the clearings--wood and fen, fen and wood, in interminable succession; woods of oak in the clay soils; of beech on the chalk; of birch, pine, and fir in the northern parts of the island. The boats were essentially _monoxyla_, _i.e._, single trees hollowed out, sometimes by stone adzes, oftener by fire. The chief dresses were the skins of beasts.