228 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



button is very beautifully ornamented with a cross pattern 1 , formed 

 by delicately-engraved lines, and is very similar to one found, to- 

 gether with a ring, in a barrow at Rudstone [No. Ixviii]. The 

 ring is also engraved with lines over the entire surface, and has 

 two perforations in the side, similar to that at the back of the 

 button, as shown in the section. The supposed use of these rings, 

 which have been found in Wiltshire and Derbyshire as well as on 

 the wolds, will be found discussed a little further on in the account 

 of the B/udstone barrow. Near the feet of the body were numerous 

 fragments of a 'drinking cup/ which did not however seem to 

 have been deposited with this interment, but with an earlier one, 

 disturbed in the process of inserting the body now under notice ; 

 many pieces of the same vessel were met with in various parts of the 

 grave. About 8 in. beneath the body was a great quantity of 

 charcoal. No undisturbed skeleton lay at the bottom of the grave; 

 but part of a skull, two femurs, two tibias, and several other bones 

 showed that a former occupant had been displaced, and most pro- 

 bably when the body above noticed was buried. It is strange 

 indeed that the disturbance should have been extended to the very 

 bottom of the grave, when the inserted body had been placed fully 

 3 ft. above that level, and that the bottom of the grave having 

 been reached, the secondary interment should not have been made 

 there. There cannot however be any doubt about the fact that 

 the bones met with at the bottom were not in their natural position, 

 for they were broken and scattered at wide in- 

 tervals. In the grave, and not far from the bottom, 

 were three small and very beautifully- made barbed 

 arrow-points of flint [fig. 117], which very possibly 

 had been associated with the primary interment. 

 Amongst the material of the barrow were a few 

 sherds of plain pottery and a single piece of a 

 cinerary urn, a few flint chippings, and several bones of oxen and 

 of goats or sheep, one being the core of an ox-horn. 



1 On a bronze vase found, with other things, at Ronninge, Denmark, is a cross, 

 surrounded by a border, the whole pattern being almost identical with that on the 

 button. The vase has at the centre of the cross a dot with two circles round it, a 

 feature which seems almost necessary when such a design is exhibited on a flat sur- 

 face, but which the conical button naturally presents in its raised central point. 

 Another bronze vase with a similar cross figure upon it was found at Siem, Denmark. 

 The vases are figured in Madsen, Af bildninger. 





