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of one of the cists. In the grave were several bones of a body 

 which had been disturbed. 



Seventeen feet north-east from the centre, and on the surface, was 

 the body, probably of a woman about 55 years of age, laid on the 

 right side, with the head to W.N.W., having the hands in front of 

 the stomach, the fingers of both hands mutually touching. Close 

 behind the back of the hips was a bone-pin, 2^ in. long, laid upon 

 four flints, all in contact ; one of them is a well-made pear-shaped 

 scraper, another a knife-like implement, curved on one edge, and 

 2J- in. long, the other two are mere chippings. At the right hand 

 was a triangular-shaped flint, chipped along two of its edges, and 

 probably a scraper ; while beneath the knees there lay a large and 

 broad flint flake. At the present centre, which, as noticed above, 

 was about 9 ft. north-west by west from the original centre, 

 assuming that point to be marked by the presence of the grave, 

 was a very large quantity of broken pottery, dark-coloured and 

 plain, like that which has been several times noticed already. The 

 fragments were laid upon the natural surface, and appeared to form 

 the remains of what had been originally deposited as two entire 

 vessels. Twelve feet north of the grave, in a hole 14 in. in diameter 

 and 1 ft. deep, was a burnt body, that of an adult; amongst the 

 bones were several pieces of calcined flint, one of which was 

 evidently part of an implement, as indeed they may all have been, 

 whilst immediately above the bones was an unburnt flint flake very 

 much worn by use along both edges. Fifteen feet north of the 

 grave was a hole, 1 ft. in diameter and the same in depth, in which 

 was a large quantity of charcoal. Fires had evidently been lighted 

 on the natural surface over nearly the whole extent covered by the 

 barrow, and the earth was very much reddened in consequence, 

 burnt chalk being mixed amongst it. Innumerable potsherds of the 

 dark-coloured plain ware and flint chippings were found throughout 

 the barrow, together with two water-rolled quartzite pebbles, which 

 had been used as hammer-stones; a flat stone quite smoothened, 

 probably by the process of rubbing, 6| in. by 5J in., and 1J in. 

 thick ; and a round flint scraper. Scattered here and there in the 

 mound were the broken bones of several oxen (bos longifrons] , some 

 of them young animals, and of four pigs. 



On the ridge of the wolds, where the chalk range slopes sharply 

 away to the flat land of Holderness, and near the division between 

 the parishes of Rudstone and Burton Agnes, is a group of barrows 



