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Meport of the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Antiquarian 

 Club, in the Excavation of Barrows from the year 

 1849.—% William Procter, Esq., M. R. C. S., 

 Hon. Secretary to the Club, 



This paper has for its object an account of the proceedings 

 of the Yorkshire Antiquarian Club, in the examination of 

 Barrows, a branch of archgeological research of great importance 

 in the elucidation of matters connected with pre-historic ages. 

 In many cases we have no other means of arriving by analogy 

 and comparison at a knowledge of the habit, rise, customs and 

 ethnology of a people long since passed away ; and no other 

 clue to the real age and period of numerous remarkable struc- 

 tures. To such the attention and examination of the Yorkshire 

 Antiquarian Club has been especially directed ; barrows have 

 been opened at Danesdale, Acklam, Driffield, Skipwith, Hug- 

 gate, Thixendale, Arras, llutton Cranswick, Ampleforth, and 

 Aldrow ; from the reports which were furnished by Professor 

 Phillips, Dr. Thurnam, Mr. Jessop, and the Secretary, the fol- 

 lowing results are compiled. 



ACKLAM. 



On Acklam Wold and the surrounding hills are a large 

 number of tumuli ; to them the attention of the Club was first 

 directed. The excavation of three was made in August, 1849. 

 In the first, about a foot from the surface, was discovered a 

 large quantity of calcined bones, and among them was a 

 beautiful bone pin, 9 inches in length : near the top a perfora- 

 tion passes completely through the bone. The excavation was 

 continued to the depth of 4 feet, when a skeleton presented 

 itself to the excavators ; it was that of a male, laid on the right 

 side, with the head to the north, and feet to the south, the 

 arms brought forward, and bent at the elbows, one of them 

 touching the drawn-up knees. At this point was discovered a 

 small urn, sunbaked, presenting no marks of the wheel, and 

 having the other characters in figure and ornament of British 



