156 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



70 ft. in diameter, 1^ ft. high, and made of earth and chalk. From 

 the manner in which the mound had been ploughed down it is not 

 easy to say where the original centre had been, and it is most 

 probable that the only interment met with, although it lay 14 ft. to 

 the east of the present centre, was the original and central one. It 

 was that of a person in middle life, who was laid on the natural 

 surface, on the left side, with the head to S.S.W.; the right hand 

 was in front of the face, the left laid under the thighs. Behind the 

 head of the adult was placed that of a very young child, being all 

 of the body that had not gone to decay l . Behind the child's head, 

 which was placed to S.W., and on the left side, was a rudely-made 

 bone pin, 2f in. long. 



In this case it is probable that we have the interment of 

 a parent and child, but the imperfect condition of the bones 

 makes it impossible to say whether the adult was male or female. 



In the barrow were a fragment of pottery, a knife-like implement 

 of flint, 1^ in. long and rather triangular in shape, a round scraper, 

 and another one, long, narrow, and well-shaped, exactly like fig. 

 18, and a flint arrow-point [fig. 28], of a type not commonly found 



containing a deposit of burnt bones. Mr. Petrie thinks these were the bodies of 

 a great man and a slave, and of a wife and another slave or slaves. Proc. Soc. of Ant. 

 Scotland, vol. vi. pp. 412-417. 



1 The occurrence of children buried with adults, both male and female, will be 

 found noticed in several places in this volume ; similar instances have been met with 

 by others. In a cist was ' the skeleton of a man, in the prime of life ;' with him were 

 a drinking cup, a flint implement, a dagger of flint, three barbed arrow-points, and 

 three bone implements; 'close to the pelvis (of the man) lay the remains of an infant/ 

 Bateman, Vestiges, p. 59. The primary interment in a cist below a barrow on 

 Middleton Moor, ' consisted of a female, in the prime of life, and a child, about four 

 years of age . . . the child was placed above her, and rather behind her shoulders/ 

 Bateman, Ten Years' Diggings, p. 24. The central interment in Blake Low was ' of 

 a very young woman, or rather of a girl ... at the head was a drinking cup . . . and 

 along with the skeleton were the bones of an infant/ I. c. p. 41. In a grave in Rus- 

 den Low was ' the skeleton of a young female . . . before the face were indications of 

 the skeleton of a very young child/ 1. c. p. 44. In a cist were ' skeletons of two infants 

 and an adult. . . . Immediately under lay another adult human skeleton. . . . This, 

 the lowest interment, was evidently a male, the one next above presents female 

 characteristics, and both, together with the children, presented umnistakeable evidence 

 of having been interred at the same time, so that we have some reason to suppose that 

 the family was immolated at the funeral of its head/ L c. p. 78. Within a cist in a 

 barrow north of Pickering, North Riding, ' were two skeletons ; the principal one (an 

 adult) laid on its left side . . . the other skeleton was that of an infant, and lay behind 

 the former/ 1. c. p. 210. In a barrow near Pickering was ' a skeleton . . . with a stone 

 adze or celt. ... It is also to be remarked that at the head and feet of this interment 

 were two more human skeletons of very small size, which illustrates similar dis- 

 coveries made in Derbyshire and Staffordshire barrows/ I. c, p. 221. Near Warminster, 

 in a grave, were ' discovered the remains of an infant, and by its side those of a female 

 adult, probably its mother/ Hoare, Ancient Wilts, vol. i. p. 68. 



