148 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



body. With the bones were two flint chippings and some pieces of 

 charcoal. Twenty feet south-by-west of the centre were some 

 human bones, but so much gone to decay that it was impossible to 

 make out whether or no an entire body had been buried there. 

 With them was a long flint scraper. At the centre was an oval 

 grave, its longest diameter lying east and west, 3 ft. by 2 ft. and 

 1 ft. deep. In it were two bodies, one that of an aged man, the : 

 other that of a woman considerably younger, being probably under 

 twenty years of age. The man had been laid on the right side, 



Fig. 98. i. 



with the head to W. ; in front of the face was a vessel of well- 

 tempered and well-baked clay, without any admixture of comminuted 

 stone, of dark colour and perfectly plain, except in so far as the 

 presence of two encircling ribs may be looked on as an ornament. 

 It is 5 in. high, 4f in. wide at the mouth, and 3 in. at the bottom 

 [fig. 96]. The woman had also been laid on the right side, but 

 with the head to E. In the barrow were two pieces of plain 

 pottery, a few flint chippings, and many animal bones l . 



X. Situated at no great distance from the barrow just noticed, 

 but somewhat to the east of it, was one opened under my own super- 

 vision, and which proved to be little more than a natural swell of 



1 The bones are those of several oxen (bos longifrons), all adult animals. 



