158 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



up to the face. In the barrow itself were some flint chippings, and 

 a very beautifully flaked javelin-head or knife [fig. 30]. One face 

 had never been touched after being struck off from the core, the 

 other had been very carefully and minutely chipped over nearly the 

 whole surface, whilst the end is worked up to a very sharp point. 



XVIII. The last barrow of this group was situated about 80 yds. 

 north of that last mentioned. It was 60 ft. in diameter, 2 ft. high, 

 and composed of earth and chalk. Near the outside of the mound, 

 on the east and south sides, was a great quantity of blocks of flint. 

 At the centre was a grave, 6 ft. in diameter and the same in depth, 

 covered over with large flints, and having a considerable number of 

 the same at the bottom. It was principally filled in with chalk 



Fig. 99. 



rubble (the material removed in the process of making the grave), 

 amongst which were some broken human bones, two fragments of 

 different earthenware vessels, and a single flint chipping. One 

 foot and a half above the bottom of the grave, and rather to the 

 south of the centre, was a burnt body ; the bones, those of a 

 full-grown person, were laid in a small round heap, 14 in. in 

 diameter. Just beyond this heap, on the south-west side, was 

 placed a perforated greenstone axe-hammer [fig. 99], which had 

 been burnt with the body 1 . It is 5 in. long and 2 in. wide at the 



1 Axe-hammers have occurred in other barrows on the wolds, as will be seen in the 

 sequel, in two cases [Nos. Iviii, Ixviii] associated with unburnt bodies, and in one 

 [No. Ixxxix], like this, with a burial after cremation. They have also been met with 

 accompanying burnt bodies, as well in Yorkshire as in other parts of England ; some' 

 of these discoveries are here noted. Three have been found by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson 

 in barrows in Cleveland, in the North Riding, one of which is here figured [fig. 100] ; 

 in these cases the weapon had been burnt with the corpse. Under a barrow near 

 Stourton in Wiltshire, in a grave with a burnt body, a bronze knife-dagger and a 

 perforated stone axe-hammer were associated. Hoare, Ancient Wilts, vol. i. p. 39, pi. i. 

 In a baiTow near Heytesbury a cinerary urn was found inverted over a deposit of 

 burnt bones and an axe-hammer of stone. 1. c. p. 79, pi. viii. In a barrow near the last 

 was a deposit of burnt bones and an axe-hammer of stone. I. c. p. 79, pi. viii. In a cist 

 below a barrow at Winterbourne Steepleton, which contained ashes and calcined human 



