226 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



in the act of inserting the body last described. Immediately to 

 the west of that body, the feet of which in fact projected beyond 

 the edge of the excavation now to be mentioned, was an oval grave, 

 which had no doubt been originally central ; but the centre, as is 

 not unusual, had afterwards been lost in the process of adding to 

 the dimensions of the mound. It was north-west by south-east, 

 7f ft. by 7 ft. and 3| ft. deep. At the bottom was the body of a 

 strongly-made man in the middle period of life, laid on the left 

 side, with the head to S.E., and close to the south-east side of the 

 grave ; the hands were up to the face. The body seemed to have 

 been surrounded by wood on -all sides, but not apparently covered 

 over with it. Outside this wooden casing lay dhalk-rubble, but 

 within it, and over the body, there was a good deal of earth mixed 

 with the chalk. The bones seemed to have been removed and 

 afterwards replaced ; for the sacrum was close to the left scapula, 

 and there were no vertebrae between the cervical and the lumbar 

 region of the back bone, the bones of the neck and those of the 

 lower part of the back being in immediate connection. In the 

 filling-in of the grave was a well-chipped knife of flint ; it is 2 J in. 

 long, 1 1 in. wide at the broadest part, and comes to a sharper point 

 than is usual in such implements, so as in some degree to partake 

 of the character of a javelin-head. 



The circumstances of this interment present some difficulties 

 which are not readily to be explained. Bodies which have been 

 disturbed and replaced are not unfrequently found, but in such 

 cases there is often a cause sufficiently apparent for that disturb- 

 ance in the presence of an introduced body. In this instance, 

 however, there was nothing of that kind to account for the evidently 

 imperfect and replaced condition of the bones. It would seem as if 

 the body had been interred in some other place in the first instance, 

 and had afterwards been removed to the place where the bones were 

 now found. Amongst the materials of the barrow were a number 

 of flint chippings, flakes, and cores ; an oval scraper of the same 

 material which had passed through the fire ; two drills, a saw, and 

 two enigmatical articles, one possibly a knife, the other a sling- 

 stone. 



PARISH OF THWING. Orel. Map. xcv. s.w. 



LX. The barrow now to be described was situated towards the 

 easternmost range of the wolds, and at a distance of several miles 



