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YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



both If in. long. Close to the flints was a bone pin, 3 in. long. 

 At the centre, in a very shallow hollow, was the body of a young 

 woman, laid upon the right side, with the head to E., and the hands 

 up to the face. Behind the head was a ' food vessel,' something in 

 shape like fig. 69, but perfectly plain, 5 in. high, 5-J- in. wide at the 

 mouth, and 2| in. at the bottom. Bound her neck was a necklace 

 of jet beads [fig. 49], consisting of 119 small flat circular disks, 

 slightly increasing in size from the ends of the necklace to the 

 middle, where was a triangular pendant, also of jet 1 . Immediately 

 to the east of this body, but at a slightly higher level, was another, 

 that of an adult. It was laid upon the left side, with the head 

 to E., the hands being up to the face. The plough had just touched 

 it and taken off the legs, which had been placed a little higher 

 than the rest of the body. A flint implement was found where the 



Fig. 107. 



knees had been, and had evidently been deposited under them ; a 

 position in which, associated with a burial noticed in the account of 

 the last barrow, a somewhat similar flint was discovered. This 

 implement [fig. 107], to which the name of knife may perhaps be 

 given, is 2J in. long, very carefully made, being chipped along both 

 sides and also round the ends, and is an excellent specimen of the 

 class to which it belongs. At a point 5 ft. west of the centre was 

 the body of a strongly-built but aged man, laid on the natural 

 surface, upon the right side, and with the head to W. Close to 



1 I found a second necklace identical With this, except in the pendant being slightly 

 different in shape, with the body of a young woman in a grave on Goodmanham 

 Wold [No. cxxi]. Another precisely like this was found in a grave under a barrow at 

 Fimber, on the Wolds. With the skeleton were a ' food vessel ' and a small bronze 

 awl or pricker. The necklace is engraved in the Reliquary, vol. ix. pi. x. p. 65. In 

 the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland are three similar triangular 

 pendants of lignite ; one found at Rothie, Aberdeenshire, another at Bogheadly, 

 Kincardine, and the third at Balgay, near Dundee; this last was associated with 

 plates and * bugles ' also of lignite, forming an elaborate necklace ; in the cist in which 

 the interment had been made was an urn. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scotland, vol. viii. p. 412. 

 In a cist within a chamber enclosed in a long horned-cairn at Yarhouse, Caithness, 

 were found an urn, and a necklace of beads of lignite, of which seventy were 

 recovered. Those figured are identical in shape with the beads from this barrow. 

 1. c. vol. vii. p. 498* Similarly formed disks, of various materials, have served the 

 purpose of ornaments, sometimes by themselves, and sometimes in connection with 

 other forms, not only amongst the early inhabitants of Britain and other countries, 

 but with modern savages. 



