152 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



suppose them to have been nearly related, perhaps brother and 

 sister, or two sisters. The burnt body immediately above the 

 grave was probably that of a woman, for bronze awls have usually 

 been found associated with female interments ; and it is possible 

 that we have in this barrow the burials of a family : the mother in 

 the cinerary urn, two children in the grave, and the father, who 

 must have died later, buried near the north-west side, with the 

 flint instruments accompanying the body. The conjunction of 

 burnt and unburnt bodies need cause no difficulty, for we have so 

 many instances of inhumation and cremation contemporaneously 

 practised as to show that their concurrent adoption was by no 



means uncommon. 



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Rather more than a quarter of a mile to the north-east of 

 the barrow last but one noticed were six others, three of which 

 lay on Sherburn, the remaining three on Potter Brompton Wold. 

 I examined the whole group. 



XIII. The first was 90 ft. in diameter and 2f ft. high, but had 

 been much ploughed down ; it was composed of earth. Two feet 

 south of the centre and one foot above the natural surface were two 

 red-deer antlers laid together 1 . Immediately west of them was 

 an oval grave, lying north-west by south-east, 4J ft. by 3J ft., 

 and sunk to a depth of 4 ft. into the chalk rock. On the bottom, at 

 the north-west end, was the body of a woman, from 18 to 24 years 

 old, laid on the right side, with the head to W., the right hand in 

 front of the knees and the left on the right elbow. Upon the wrist 

 of the right arm, and just in front of the knees, was a ' food vessel ' 

 [fig. 72]. It is very substantially made, being more than half an 

 inch thick, and is 6^ in. high, 7 in. wide at the mouth, and 3J in. 

 at the bottom. The inside of the lip is ornamented with three 

 encircling lines of twisted-thong marks, the outside with a row of 

 short vertical impressions of pieces of thicker thong but very closely 

 twisted. The whole surface of the body of the vase is covered with 

 sixteen encompassing lines of a very thick and loosely-twisted cord, 

 apparently made of some vegetable fibre. Immediately behind the 

 back of the body and underneath it was a quantity of burnt 



1 In a barrow at Warren Hill, near Mildenhall, Suffolk, Mr. Henry Prigg, junior, 

 discovered a body associated with a ' food vessel ' in a grave. Over the body were 

 placed eighteen red-deer antlers, as if to protect it. Journ. Suffolk Inst. of Archae- 

 ology, vol. iv. p. 289. 



