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Show Wood Used by Ancient Britons. Present-day Britons and their ancestors an-cestors of a very long-vanished past are brought into close touch by the discovery in a largo barrow near Leek, In Staffordshire, of some of the wood with which tho ancient Britons aro said to have dyed their bodies. The wood was found in the form o! bluish dust. In the same barrow, which Is being removed for build In 2 purposes, has been found a funeral urn containing some of tho bones of a child, and a stono worked Into the shape of a heart. Some of the blue woad has been found before In another an-other barrow in the same part of the country. |