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series to be contemporaneous, bronze instruments must have 

 been used at that period, as is evidenced from the Celt found at 

 Riggs. Coupled with the undoubted evidence which occurs of 

 the contemporaneous practice of cremation and burial of the 

 body ; the extensive and complicated entrenchments mark long 

 time and settled occupation, perhaps stretching over the whole 

 period from very early Brigantian into Romano-British periods. 



ARRAS. 

 At Arras, a farm on the hill, about three miles from Market 

 Weighton, at an elevation of more than 300 feet, overlooking a 

 vast extent of country, and at a neighbouring farm Hessleskew, 

 are a numerous class of barrows, above 200, a large number 

 of which had been opened by the Rev. E. Stillingfleet, in 

 1815 — 16 — 17. This locality was visited by the Yorkshire 

 Antiquarian Club in May, 1850, and three of the tumuli 

 were examined. Only one of them gave decisive results : it 

 was a barrow of slight elevation ; and at the depth of 3 feet 

 in chalk rubble a human skeleton was found in very good 

 preservation, laid nearly on the face, with the head to the 

 north, and the face turned somewhat eastward and down- 

 wards. The arms were so placed beneath the body that 

 they covered the knees, which were bent and drawn up to 

 the chin. The thigh bones each measured 19 inches. Near 

 the upper part of the body were found the skull and one or two 

 other bones of a pig. The second tumulus was composed of 

 chalk rubble with clay, but aiforded no vestiges of interment. 

 The third tumulus examined was on the Hessleskew side of the 

 road close to the hedge, and presented marks of having been 

 previously opened, from the disturbed state of the bones and 

 structure of the barrow. One exception to the general charac- 

 ter of the works in this district was observed, in a tumulus 

 being surrounded by a square instead of a round fossa. 



DANES DALE. 



Near the east edge of the Wolds, three miles north of 

 Driffield, is a secluded spot of wooded ground measuring 

 4 acres, covered with tumuli of slight elevation, so closely 



