204 THE BRIGANTES. 



Similar facts were observed on the neighbouring common of 

 Thorganby. This locality is evidently in a country which was 

 of importance in Saxon days. At Riccall, Harold Hardrada 

 landed his troops, and Skipwith has a large church with a Saxon 

 tower, more interesting than any other which I have seen in 

 Yorkshire. The vague tradition of the country, preserving the 

 memory of the Norwegian descent, speaks of the tumuli of Skip- 

 with as the Danes' hills as if they had been raised over the 

 Northmen's dead. But the fight so fatal to the invaders was at 

 Stamford Bridge, and at the time of the battle Christianity had 

 visited the Danes, and the dead were buried, not burnt. 



The third form of hut foundation, the incomplete ring of stone 

 walls, has been already sufficiently spoken of in reference to the 

 only place where it has yet been observed distinctly in Yorkshire 

 the summit of Ingleborough (p. 27). They are of larger 

 dimensions than those usual in the eastern parts of Yorkshire ; 

 no tumuli appear in connexion with them. In principle of con- 

 struction, these huts, of which we have thus traced the founda- 

 tions, are the Cyttiau of Wales, the antecedents of the cottages 

 of England, a low wall foundation, a roof formed by inclined 

 rafters, and covered by boughs, heath, rushes, grass, straw, or 

 sods. The relative dates surely admit of no doubt. The huts 

 and walls of Ingleborough exhibit principles of construction 

 which remove them from the catalogue of barbarian works. 



TUMULI. 



From the hut of the living it is but a step to the house of the 

 dead, over whose bodies or ashes earth or stones were laid in a 

 conical or dome-shaped heap, to the height of 3, 5, 10, or more 

 feet, and with a diameter of 3, 10, 20, or more yards. Thus 

 the dead was provided with a receptacle not unlike his home, so 

 that when placed in it he lay 



Mit dem Anstand, den er hatte 

 Als er's Licht noch sah. 



