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the excavations of the Club on the mounds at Aldrow, in 

 August, 1853. Aldrow is the name given to a farm on a table- 

 land near Birds all, 750 feet above the level of the sea ; on it 

 are tumuli surrounded by enormous British works. A bank, 

 with a double entrenchment extends to Acklam one way and 

 the other beyond Huggate. Near Aldrow farm the entrench- 

 ment encloses a square plot of ground within which are 

 several barrows. In the north angle is a mound to which 

 Professor Phillips restricts the name of Rath, where the double 

 dyke seems to twist itself into a knot. It exhibits evidence of 

 having been opened, but no record could be obtained of the 

 results of the examination. 



An exception to the usual situation of barrows was discovered 

 about half a mile north of Aldrow, in a beautiful and secluded 

 little vale, near where a small stream springs from the Kim- 

 meridge clay. Here is a large mound with a double entrench- 

 ment ; on this occasion time only allowed of its partial explora- 

 tion : it was composed of chalk rubble and flint, but the 

 examination did not allow of the determination whether it 

 formed a resting place for the Brigantian dead, or was the site 

 of his devotions in life ; as a spot for observation the low 

 situation was unsuitable. 



On this occasion, three of the British tumuli near the 

 northern edge of the wold were examined. The first, a low 

 one, yielded no results beyond a few burnt human bones and 

 charcoal. The other two were close together ; in the most 

 northern, about two feet below the surface, an urn of the usual 

 sundried clay, ornamented with impressed puncta in circular 

 belts, rewarded the labours of the Club. 



On further investigation, layers of carbonaceous matter, 

 mixed with an unctuous matter and clay containing human 

 bones, with a few of the horse and bird, were found. The 

 third, like the others, was composed of chalk rubble, mixed 

 with small flints and layers of clay. After digging between 4 

 and 5 feet, a peculiar efilorescent matter, covering the clay 

 mixed with charcoal, was arrived at, and below this numerous 

 large and flat pieces of the natural rock, laid in some order and 



