Pre-Histovic Man in Lincolnshire. 297 
The Brachy-cephalic people seem in the Early Iron Age to 
have been absorbed in the Dolicho-cephalic People the earlier and 
more numerous race surviving after being conquered by the 
aggressive race of the Round Headed people. The modern Danish 
Head exhibits the same peculiarities as the Round Headed people. 
In these Barrows were buried the Chief of the Clan or his 
family; by the side of those interred were placed in some cases 
drinking vessels, food vessels and the so-called Incense Cup, but 
Canon Greenwell thinks they were for carrying the sacred fire to 
burn the body. 
There were several modes of burial :— 
I. One was by Inhumation, that is simply placing the body on 
the ground and covering it up withsoil; occasionally the “ ‘Trunk 
of a tree’’ was used ; three instances of Tree Trunk burials five 
feet below the surface occurred in Grimsby Churchyard, which 
may be compared with Gristhorpe, East Yorkshire. At other 
times a hole was sunk in the ground below the ground level. 
Sometimes a Cist or stone box or coffin was placed round 
the body and on the top of the uprights a long stone to cover the 
body. Such an interment was found at Rothwell near Caistor. 
II. By Cvemation, or burning, sometimes the ashes were 
collected and placed in an Urn called a cinerary urn. Burning 
the body wholly or in part seems to have been one of the sacred 
rites of burial. 
In nearly every case where inhumation has taken place the 
body is placed facing the Sun and is not laid full length but on 
its side in a contracted position, that is the head bent forward and 
the knees drawn up to the chest. Some specialists think this 
attitude indicates the sleeping attitude, while others think it 
points to the fact that as the child entered life in a contracted 
position so the dead body was similarly placed for departure from 
life and with a possibility of entering into a new life after death. 
In nearly every case where the body has been burnt whether 
wholly or in part, holes seem to have been bored or drilled into 
the ground underneath the body. 
