82 Tleport on the Opening of a Round Barrow, dc. 



all correspond witli those usually found in round barrows of the 

 bronze age, as it is certainly less artistic, and is devoid of the 

 exterior incised decoration so characteristic of the pottery of the 

 Yorkshire barrows. Although not corresponding in type, it is 

 probably nearly of the same period, and I am inclined to fix the 

 age of this barrow at that known as the early iron period, 

 British ; partly in consequence of the type of urn already referred 

 to, and partly owing to the existence of glass in the barrow, 

 which material, so far as I am aware, is first known in connection 

 with the early iron age. 



The remains of the bronze objects discovered in no way inter- 

 feres with this theory, as bronze and iron objects have been fre- 

 quently found together in barrows of this period ; and as our 

 finds of bronze were exceedingly fragmentary, and as bronze 

 is less liable to corrosion than iron, it is very probable that 

 any iron which may have been in the mound originally has 

 quite disappeared, considering that the bronze has nearly gone 

 too. 



I would therefore designate our find as a British barrow of the 

 early iron period, containing a cremated interment, with the 

 usual accessories. 



We then turned our attention to a burial of quite another 

 kind. Some hundred yards or so down the northern slope of the 

 hill was a roughly elongated mound, which might perhaps be 

 called a long barrow, but the shape of which I venture to think 

 was more probably accidental, or resulting from the general 

 contour of the ground. 



The discovery of a human finger-bone, scratched out by a 

 rabbit from its burrow, led Mr. Collyer to think that a burial 

 existed here, which in fact was the case. After removing the 

 top turf, which represented a pretty considerable accumulation 

 of root-fibre, we came upon a portion of a skeleton, which had 

 evidently at some distant period been disturbed. Digging care- 

 fully down we eventually unearthed three fine skeletons in situ, 

 at a depth of about four feet. These were lying at full length, 

 almost north and south, with the head to the south. So far as 

 we could judge, they had been placed upon their side, with the 

 face towards the rising sun, a plan still adopted by some Indian 

 tribes. I have said that this was not in my opinion a long 

 barrow ; had it been so the skeletons would have been in that 

 peculiar crouching position, with the hands up to the face, 

 characteristic of that form of barrow. 



The size and appearance of the bones point to men of fine 

 development, and a marked, but in such cases usual feature, is 

 the splendid condition of teeth. Primitive and early civilized 

 man had no need for vulcanite jaws, gold plates, and false 

 enamel, because they used the teeth which nature had given 



