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of the mound, but when it was more compact and before it had 

 been partly scattered by the plough they may well have been only 

 on its outside margin ; in its present condition it is impossible to 

 say with accuracy quite where the barrow ends and the natural 

 swell of the land begins.^ 



Triangular Arrow-head. Actual size. 



One really well worked tiint arrow-head was picked up in the 

 barrow on the old ground level, but besides this, few stray objects 

 of interest came to light during the digging; a few worked flints 

 such as may be picked up on the surface of the field, a few flints 

 and pieces of sarsen stone that had been subjected to heat, a few 

 bones and teeth of animals, and a few scattered fragments of 

 charcoal were the only finds, in spite of a careful watch. It is 

 somewhat remarkable that only one fragment of pottery was found 

 in the whole barrow, and this was of doubtful age. 



The interment was reached 34ft. from the beginning of the first 

 trench. Presuming that the mound was originally circular, its 

 diameter appears to have been about 66ft., so that the burial had 

 taken place as nearly as possible at its centre. 



Considering the mutilated condition of the barrow, there was a 

 considerable element of good luck in the fact that the skeleton was 

 discovered to lie exactly in the centre of the trench. 



' Mr. J. R. Mortimer says :— " Most of the Wold barrows I have opened 

 were found to have a filled-in trench encircling their margin, not visible on 

 the surface, the filling in being the result of tilling the land and atmospheric 

 influences. " Burial Moundu of Hast Yorkshire, p. xx. 



