In the summer of 1913 I discovered a barrow in a remote spot in North-West Suffolk, a few miles from Thetford, and as it did not appear to have been opened I determined to excavate it. I started digging on January 14th, 1914, and between then and April was working on the site for 145 hours. The barrow was roughly circular with a diameter of 40 feet. The soil was sandy, resting on gravel, with stones and gravel at a depth of 2½ feet round the circumference of the barrow, which was dug over to a depth of 4 feet, though no relics were found below 3 feet from the surface.

A little to the east of the centre a small urn was found in a rabbit burrow in 1906, and here I discovered a large funeral pyre with charcoal and potsherds. The charcoal was kindly identified by Mr. Clement Reid, F.R.S., F.G.S., as that of oak, part of it probably representing a gnarled root, while there was also a carbonised half acorn; and the potsherds by Mr. A. G. Wright, of Colchester Museum, as portions of a Bronze Age cinerary urn.