jus THE BRIGANTES. 



drawn up, the head placed toward the east ; near the knees was 

 a fine urn, with the usual zigzag British ornament. Near the 

 right arm was an unique object a piece of bone six inches long, 

 squared at the ends, with four golden rivets, two at each end. 

 In the vault were a bronze dagger, three large beads of amber, 

 bone, and stone, the upper part of a hawk's beak, a piece of 

 woollen stuff, or leather, and a buckle. No trace of iron in the 

 tumulus. On every side of this vault were found skeletons 

 buried with little symmetry or ceremony. Marks of much 

 cremation ; some charcoal, half-burned human bones, and 

 reddened soil. Flint spear-heads were found, and fragments 

 of urns, some British, others Anglo-Saxon. The mound was 

 probably used for burials long after the central hero was laid 

 to rest. 



In tumuli supposed to be British or Romano-British, opened 

 by the Rev. E. W. Stillingfleet and his friends in 1815, 1816, 

 and 1817, a much greater variety of objects was found than is 

 usual in the Wold burials. The situation is near Arras and 

 Hesleskeugh, about three miles from Weighton on the Beverley 

 road. From the number of tumuli and earth-mounds, this may 

 be regarded as a settlement of the Brigantes. Flat dotted orna- 

 ments and beads and bracelets of jet (or Kimmeridge coal), a 

 miniature bronze celt only one inch long, with a pin and a small 

 light blue glass bead, were among the more elegant objects dis- 

 covered. 



In a conspicuous barrow, called the ' Queen's barrow/ an iron 

 knob was found placed over a kist. The kist contained a female 

 skeleton, with the feet gathered up, the head toward the north. 

 Near the head and upper part of the body, about one hundred 

 glass beads were found; some had a blue ground, spotted or 

 zigzaged by white ; others were of a clear green, entwined by a 

 serpentine white thread. A ring of red amber was found near 

 the breast. A radiated brooch and a singular round ornament 

 had been covered with a paste, and varnished. Two bracelets, 

 a small ring, a pair of tweezers, and a pin with a ring at the end 



