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For the last few years, almost the only local collectors | 
have had to compete with are Mr. Thomas Boynton, 
Bridlington Quay ;, Mr. Robert Gatenby, Old Bridlington ; 
and, I may add, Sir Tatton Sykes, Bart., of Sledmere. 
COLLECTIONS FROM THE BARROWS. 
Hitherto I have only referred to the collections of 
specimens which have been obtained from the surface of 
the land, or otherwise accidentally found. 
In addition to these, four valuable collections of ancient 
British and Anglo-Saxon relics have been obtained by 
excavating the barrows of this district. 
1.) The late Lord Londesborough explored a_ great 
number of barrows in this neighbourhood, during a period 
of ten years, ranging from 1842 to 1852, and the principal of 
the articles he then discovered were placed in his museum at 
Grimston. After his lordship’s death, when the house and 
estate at Grimston were sold (about 1872), the contents of 
the museum were dispersed. Afterwards (in 1886) a portion 
of the relics were sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, 
Manson, and Wood, at their rooms, King Street, St. James’, 
London. Of the present whereabouts of this large collection 
(excepting a small. portion, including some rare specimens 
from a barrow at Kellythorpe, near Driffield, which at the 
above sale found its way to the British Museum) | know 
nothing. I fear, however, that the whole of it is lost to 
East Yorkshire. 
(2.) The late James Silbourn, of Pocklington, during the 
years 1851-2, opened several of the barrows in the neighbour- 
hood of Huggate and Warter. Since then I have re-opened 
nearly the whole of these particular barrows, as I could not 
distinguish, before excavating, which of them had been opened 
by Mr. Silbourn. I found that he had placed a strip of lead, 
on which his name was stamped, in several of the barrows he 
had opened. In the spring of 1852, Mr. Silbourn, during an 
exploration in stormy weather, took cold, which brought on 
inflammation, and so caused his death. After this regrettable 
circumstance, the pottery and many other relics he had 
obtained from the barrows were sold by his relatives, and, 
like the previously named collection, their fate is unknown to 
me, excepting—as in the previous instance—a very small 
portion, which is now in the British Museum. 
(3.) The Rev. Canon Greenwell, of Durham, during a 
period of thirty years (1864-1894), excavated upwards of 300 
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