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bones 1 . With them was deposited an implement, which may be 

 a javelin-head of flint, calcined [fig. 98] ; it is 3J in. long and in. 

 wide at the broadest part, and has been made from a flake, 

 triangular in section, the broadest side of which has been left as it 

 was when struck from the core, while the edges of the two 

 smaller planes of cleavage, where they run into that of the broader 

 side, have been very carefully flaked all along to the point 2 . 



Fig. 98. A. 



Two feet south-west of the first grave was a second, an oval one, 

 5 ft. by 4J ft., the direction of the longer axis being north-east by 

 south-west, and 3ft. 10 in. deep. In it on the bottom, at the 



1 The bones are those of a person nearly, if not quite, full grown, together with 

 a few fragments of what seem to be those of a young goat or deer. 



2 The occurrence of burnt and unburnt bodies in close juxtaposition, and evidently 

 deposited at the same time, will be noticed under the account of several barrows in 

 this volume. The same circumstance has been met with by other explorers. In a 

 barrow on Acklam Wold, in the East Riding, opened by the Yorkshire Antiquarian 

 Club, the knees of an unburnt body are stated to have been found charred by a deposit 

 of burnt bones placed close against them. Procter, Proc. Yorkshire Antiquarian Club, 



