172 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



adult body, laid on the left side, and with the head to W.N.W. 

 It was too decayed to allow the position of the hands to be made 

 out. Underneath the shoulders was an oval flint knife, 1| in. long, 

 very carefully chipped over the convex surface for a space of f in. 

 from the pointed end. Large flint blocks were placed both over 

 and beneath the body. About 5 ft. east of this last was the body of a 

 young child, laid on the right side, with the head to W. Close to its 

 back, and partly surrounding it, were the burnt remains of a full-sized 

 person. In actual contact with the child's head was another body, its 

 face being the part in contact ; this, so far as could be made out from 

 such bones as were still undecayed, was that of a woman, laid on the 

 left side, the head to E.N.E., the left hand on the breast, but having 

 the right arm extended from the hips, and holding the head of a 

 second and younger child with the hand. Just behind the back of 

 this body was the lower jaw of a young person. All these bodies or 

 parts of bodies were placed upon the natural surface. Nine feet 

 north-west of the centre, and also laid on the natural surface, was 

 the head of a body on its left side, and in front of it was a * food 

 vessel.' It is shaped like fig. 69, 4 in. high, 4^ in. wide at the 

 mouth, and 2J- in. at the bottom, and is ornamented on the inside 

 of the lip of the rim and on the upper part of the vase with two 

 encircling rows of short lines, made with the end of a pointed tool. 

 There was no trace of the rest of the body in this case, nor was 

 there any reason for supposing that any other of the bones had ever 

 been placed there. From the fact of two heads and a lower jaw 

 having been found separated from the other parts of the bodies to 

 which they respectively belonged, it is possible that the barrow had 

 been disturbed in order to put in some secondary burials, and that 

 a certain amount of pains had been taken to replace the most 

 important part, I mean the head, and even to put back the vase 

 and the arrow-point, which had originally accompanied two of 

 the interments. What is here supposed would not be without 

 parallel in other barrows, for it will be seen in future pages that 

 other instances of disturbance have occurred in which the bones 

 have afterwards been replaced, in some cases with the obvious 

 attempt to put the several bones removed back again into their due 

 relative positions. The secondary or introduced burials, in the case 

 before us, supposing them to be such, were probably those of the 

 woman and the two children, together with that of the burnt body, 

 which was placed in immediate contact with one of the children. 

 There can be little doubt that in this barrow we have the bodies of 



