194 YOE.KSHIEE. EAST RIDING. 



upon the natural surface, but not near to any interment. It is 

 shaped like fig. 71, with five unpierced ears at the shoulders ; 

 4f in. high, 5| in. wide at the mouth, and 2| in. at the bottom. 

 The ornamentation is confined to the upper two inches of the vase 

 and to the inside of the rim, and consists on the outside of ten 

 encircling lines of thong-impressions and two of dotted markings, 

 one between the first and second, the other between the fourth and 

 fifth lines of thong-impressions. The inside of the rim has a single 

 encircling line of dots between two encircling lines of thong- 

 impressions, whilst the outside of the lip has upon it a series of 

 short vertical lines. " Fifteen feet south of the centre, and about 

 1 ft. above the natural surface, was a body, probably that of a man 

 about 20 to 25 years of age, lying on the right side, with the head 

 to W., the left hand crossed over and clasping the right, and both 

 up to the face. Above the knees was a very peculiar vase which 

 must be classed amongst the 'food vessels' [fig. 74]. It has four 

 feet set upon a round bottom ; and is 5| in. high, and 5 J in. wide 

 at the mouth. The upper part is ornamented with a herring-bone 

 pattern of thong-impressions, and below is an encompassing band 

 of semicircular markings ; the vase then becomes plain, until 

 within 1^ in. of the bottom, when it is covered over the whole 

 remaining space with semicircular markings similar to those on 

 the upper part, and, like them, made with finely-twisted thong. 

 Fifteen feet east- south -east from the centre, and just above the 

 natural surface, was the body of a child, too much decayed to 

 admit of its position being determined 1 . Six feet south-west of 

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

 a man in middle life, laid on the left side, with the head to E.; the 

 hands were up to the face, the left over the right and clasping it, 

 the fingers being doubled in. Behind the head were two flint 

 implements elaborately chipped : the one is apparently a knife, 

 flaked to a sharp edge along both sides, one of which is curved, 

 and is 2^ in. long and If in. wide [fig. 20]; the other has 

 originally been larger, and had been broken before it was buried ; 

 it is now 2J in. long and 1J in. wide, and is of a triangular 

 shape, and chipped over both faces. Under the knees was a flint 

 flake, 2J in. long, very much worn along both edges by use. 

 Nine feet west-south-west of the centre was the body of a 



1 In the further account of this barrow, where no specific mention is made of the 

 position of the body, or of its head or hands, it must be understood that the bdnes 

 were too much decayed to allow those facts to be ascertained. 



