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another, which on examination presented some singular features. 

 It is at no great distance from a long barrow, which was partly 

 removed prior to the year 1868, and entirely destroyed in that 

 year, when several characteristics very similar to those of a long 

 barrow which I examined on Willerby Wold were disclosed. 



The round barrow was 70 ft. in diameter, 3 ft. high, and was 

 made up of earth and broken flint. On the east side of the mound 

 was a very remarkable trench sunk into the chalk rock. It 

 commenced at a point 25 ft. east-by-south from the centre, and 

 extended for 16 ft. in a north-east direction. At the south-west 

 end (where it had a kind of offset or extension towards the south- 

 west, 3 ft. long, 2 ft. wide, and 2 ft. deep) it was 5f ft. deep, 3 ft. 

 wide at the top, and If ft. at the bottom. Towards the north-east 

 end it became gradually shallower and narrower, diminishing to 

 2 ft. in depth and 1 ft. in width, widening again however and 

 deepening at its extremity into a hole 2 ft. wide and 4 ft. deep. 

 Midway along the line of this trench was a row of large blocks of 

 flint, lying close together and lft. above the bottom, having 

 underneath them a considerable number of potsherds. The whole 

 of the trench was filled with burnt earth, burnt chalk, and charcoal. 

 The fire had been applied however to this material before it had 

 been placed in the trench, for there was not the slightest trace of 

 burning on the sides of the trench, although the heat to which 

 the burnt chalk and earth had been subjected had evidently been 

 very intense. Throughout the trench, but especially (as just 

 noticed) beneath the flints, were many broken pieces of pottery, 

 principally of a dark-coloured ware, and certainly the fragments of 

 domestic utensils. Amongst these were the broken portions of one 

 vessel in particular, in sufficient number to allow of its being 

 re-constructed ; the several pieces were not lying together, but were 

 dispersed throughout the greater part of the trench. This vessel 

 [fig. 91] is hand-made, with a rounded bottom, 5 in. high, and 10 in. 

 wide at the mouth ; the lip or rim turns over. It is of a palish- 

 brown colour, and the paste is remarkably fine and without any 

 admixture of broken stone ; and in point of density it is so light as 

 to rival in that respect the best Greek pottery. I have never met 

 with anything quite like it, in shape, colour, or paste l . Mr. Tindall, 



1 It will be observed that the occurrence of dark-coloured plain pottery, pre- 

 sumably the remains of domestic vessels, is a common feature in the wold barrows. 

 The remains are however so fragmentary that I have never been able to reconstruct 

 a vessel, but I believe, judging from the curvature of the fragments, that many of 



