204 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



PARISH OF LANGTOFT. Ord. Hap. xciv. N.W. 



XLVIII. The next barrow, which was situated a little to the 

 south-east of the last, though in a different parish, had been dug 

 into in recent times at the centre, but there were so many peculiar 

 features connected with it that I am reluctant to omit all mention 

 of its contents. It was 70ft. in diameter, 1^ ft. high, and made 

 of earth. Twelve feet east- south -east of the centre was a circular 

 hole, 2 J ft. in diameter ; three feet east of it was a second, 2 ft. 

 in diameter ; and three feet east-south-east of it a third, also 2 ft. 

 in diameter. They were all sunk to a depth of 2 ft. below the 

 natural surface, and were filled in with chalk-rubble, amongst 

 which there was some charcoal. Over and round about these three 

 holes lay a great quantity of burnt earth and charcoal, together 

 with a few burnt bones. Eight feet south-south-east of the centre, 

 in a slight depression of the surface, were two bodies, with some 

 fragments of a ' drinking cup,' and a good deal of charcoal : these 

 no doubt had been the central burials. Both the bodies had been 

 disturbed, probably by the persons who had dug into the barrow, 

 and who had left, in evidence of their work, half of a horse- shoe 

 and a piece of glazed pottery. One of the two bodies had been 

 that of a large man ; the other, of a young person about 16 years 

 old. Beneath these two disturbed bodies was a circular hole, 

 1 ft. 4 in. in diameter and 14 in. deep, filled in with burnt earth 

 and charcoal, amongst which were some human bones, unburnt. 

 Fifteen feet east of the centre, and 4 ft. north of the second of the 

 holes first above noticed, was a very much larger one, running in 

 a direction north-east and south-west, 7f ft. long by 2 ft. wide, 

 and nearly 2 ft. deep. It was filled with chalk, burnt earth, and 

 charcoal, and there was one single fragment of a vase in it. Two 

 feet north-west of the disturbed bones were the leg and feet bones 

 of a body, which had been laid upon the left side, and with the 

 head to W. Close to the feet, on the north, were three thigh 

 bones and a leg bone laid in a sort of order, all probably displaced 

 from their original site by the opening above mentioned. Six feet 

 south-south-west of the centre was a sixth hole, tending north- 

 north-east by south-south-west, 4J ft. by 3| ft., and 3 ft. deep. It 

 was filled in, like the others, with chalk, burnt earth and charcoal, 

 and contained besides this the knee-cap of a young person. It will 

 be remarked that there were in this barrow more than the usual 



