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YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



In it were several sherds of the same kind of pottery as in the last 

 barrow, and many broken bones of several oxen, of goat or sheep, of 

 two pigs, and of two horses. At the centre of the mound, on the 

 natural surface, was the body of a woman in the middle period of 

 life, laid upon the left side, with the head to N. and the hands up 

 to the face. Upon the wrist of the right arm was a bronze armlet 

 [fig. 113] of very beautiful and delicate workmanship, and having a 

 patina like glass in its polish, of blue, green, and olive colour. It 

 is exactly similar, except in being of more skilful fabric, to some 



Fig. 113. i. 



found at Arras. The body when laid in its last resting-place had 

 been very much contracted, and only occupied, measuring from the 

 ends of the toes to the back of the head, a space of 35 in. About 

 and beneath the hips were some pieces of a plain, dark-coloured, and 

 hard-baked vessel. Immediately to the west of, and extending partly 

 underneath, the body was a hollow, running east and west, 7 ft. by 

 4 ft. and 3 ft. deep, in which were flint chippings, charcoal, frag- 

 ments of the same dark-coloured pottery as that mentioned above, 

 and many broken bones belonging to four oxen, one goat or sheep, 

 and one young horse. 



LIT. The third barrow was 32 ft. in diameter, 2 ft. high, and 

 made up of earth and chalk. About 4 ft. south-east of the centre 

 was an oval hole, 3ft. by 2 ft. and IJft. deep, containing amongst 

 the filling-in, charcoal, flint chippings, and some bones of an adult 

 ox. Another hole, 5 ft. long by 3 ft. wide at the west and 1 ft. wide 

 at the east end and of the same depth as the first, was met with 



