174 YORKSHIEE. EAST RIDING. 



horizontal lines of twisted-thong impressions. There was also a long- 

 narrow flint knife, of a beautiful tortoise-shell colour [fig-. 21]. The 

 knife is 2-J in. long and nearly! in. wide, left untouched on one face 

 and as it came off from the core, and carefully chipped along the other 

 face, on both edges, to a blunt point at each end. These bones, 

 both burnt and unburnt, were clearly the remains of burials which 

 had been disturbed by the introduction of later interments ; and one, 

 if not both, of the burnt bodies had been enclosed in the urn. The 

 knife, if such a term may be applied to the flint in question, is one 

 of a class of flint implements of which I have found several (besides 

 being aware of the occurrence of others) associated with burnt 

 bodies, but which had not themselves been subjected to the action 

 of fire \ On the other hand, so far as my experience serves, the 

 arrow-points found in company with burnt bodies are always 

 calcined. This fact is at least worthy of remark, although it is 

 possible that further investigations may reveal instances to the 

 contrary, notwithstanding the unvarying testimony of my own 

 personal experience. 



Immediately below these disturbed bodies, and placed upon the 

 natural surface, was the body of a man, in middle life, laid on the 

 right side, and with the head to E. ; the right arm was extended 

 down the side, the left hand upon the knees. At the back of the 

 skeleton was part of the skull of a child, about 6 years of age, belong- 

 ing to a body which had been disturbed. Three feet east of the head 

 of the body there was an oval hole, 4 ft. by 3-J ft., and 2 ft. deep, which 

 contained nothing beyond the ordinary material of the barrow. 

 Over the hole however there was placed a vessel, probably a 

 domestic one, of well- worked clay, and well -baked [fig. 92]. It is 

 quite plain, is 4 in. high, 3f in. wide at the mouth, and 3 Jin. at 

 the bottom, and has six holes, in pairs, close to the rim. Four feet 

 west of the centre, and 2 ft. above the natural surface, was the body 

 of a young man, about 25 years of age, laid on the right side, 

 the hands touching the face. In front of the upper part of the 

 chest was a jet button, f in. in diameter, bearing as fine a polish and 

 being as sound as if made only yesterday. It had no doubt fastened 

 the dress in which the corpse had been buried, and a like instance 

 will be found in the sequel, where a man had been buried with six 

 similarly-shaped but larger buttons, placed in front of his chest. 



1 The calcined implement found on Sherburn Wold, and figured at p. 153, appears 

 to belong to a different class from these knife -like articles. It is much thicker, rising 

 into a ridge at the back, and was more probably intended as a point to a dart. 



