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it, but have been placed amongst the calcined bones, after they 

 were collected from the funeral pile ; and the same may be said 

 of certain implements of flint. I have found three burnt bodies 

 which had jet beads placed amongst the bones, and they showed 

 by their perfect condition that they had never been subjected to 

 the action of fire. It will give some idea of the rarity of orna- 

 ments when I state that out of the whole number of 379 burials, 



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Fig. 44. -i. Fig. 45. -J. Fig. 46. \. 



only 10 possessed anything of the kind ; and out of these, 2, in 

 barrows at Covvlam [Nos. 1, li], belong to the early iron age ; a 

 period later than that of the ordinary barrows, which are alone 

 taken into consideration in these introductory remarks 1 . The 



Fig. 47. A. Fig. 48. |. 



eight burials which had ornaments associated with them were 

 as follows. One on Langton Wold [No. ii], where a woman 

 had been buried with a humble necklace consisting of a single 

 jet bead [fig. 44], two shells [fig. 45], a piece of a deer's-tooth 

 pierced [fig. 46], and the vertebra of a fish, &c. One at Cowlam 

 [No. Iviii], where a woman was interred with two bronze ear- 

 rings [fig 47] ; and another on Goodmanham Wold [No. cxv], 

 where what appear to have been two bronze ear-rings were found 

 close to the head of a woman, one on each side of it [fig. 48]. Two, 



1 One of the barrows at Cowlam contained the body of a woman who had been 

 buried with a necklace of glass beads. This is the only instance, so far as I know, 

 where glass has been found in any of the wold barrows, of a time before the occupa- 

 tion by the Romans, except at Arras, a group of the same date as those at Cowlam. 

 In other parts of Great Britain, however, glass beads have been discovered, which 

 certainly belong to the same period as that of the ordinary round barrows of the 

 wolds, that is,, before the introduction of iron. 



