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had evidently originally been thrown into a hole in the peat and 
buried, little care having been taken in its burial. It was laid 
back uppermost, with the arms bent under it and the legs bent 
over on its back. A flint core, from which several flakes had been 
struck, was found under the abdomen, and one or two very rough 
flakes at its left side, Strange to say, no skull was buried with it. 
This could not have been washed away by the sea, as with the 
exception of the legs, the whole skeleton was buried about two feet 
in the peat. The cervical vertebrae were carefully extracted one 
by one, and it was much to our surprise on reaching the axis that 
no more remains were forthcoming. This would seem to indicate 
that the body had been decapitated before burial. The bones are 
very black through their long contact with the peat, and they 
belonged to an individual of small stature. The absence of the 
skull is unfortunate ; but the nearness of the bones to the tumulus, 
and the presence of the flints, point to the fact that it is in some 
way connected with the burialin the mound. In some instances of 
british burials there is evidence that slaves, horses, etc., were killed 
and buried with the chief. Whether we have a case of this sort or 
not at Easington we cannot say. 
There are also some Kitchen Middens—extensive accumulations 
of oyster shells and other refuse, on the Humber side near Kilnsea, 
which I have not yet had an opportunity of carefully examining. 
The heap is parallel with the Humber for some distance. There 
is some doubt as to its age, but I possess the lower part of a Roman 
vase which Mr. J. Burton, of Horbury, found in it in the summer 
of 1898. 
A description of the various scattered relics found in Holder- 
ness will not occupy much space. Of course it would be impossible 
to enumerate them all. Several objects have been found by 
labourers and others in the villages and have been hoarded up in 
their homes as ‘curios,’ and eventually lost. To the scientific world 
such might as well never have been found. 
Perhaps the most interesting of all these finds is the ancient 
model of a boat and warrior crew found at Roos Carrs near Withern- 
sea so long ago as. 1836. These are now preserved in the Hull 
Museum. The following is the description given by Poulson? :— 
“Tn the year 1836, some labourers, who were employed in cleaning 
a dike or ditch, which had been made some years previously, in a 
field belonging to Mr. John Bilton, in Roos Carrs, west of the 
mill, discovered, about six feet below the surface, in a bed of blue 
clay, a group of figures, rudely carved in wood, and as rudely put 
together. The base or foundation of the group being a serpent, 
on the back of which were eight human figures, fixed by the feet 
into holes bored in the figure of the serpent, which was bent so as 
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