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broken human bones, showing that the barrow had been disturbed 

 in other places as well as at the centre. 



In the material of the mound there were numerous animal 

 bones 1 and chippings of flint; as also a very large quantity of 

 implements of stone and flint, comprising one quartzite hammer- 

 stone ; three pounders or rubbers ; a willow-leaf-shaped arrow- 

 point ; seven saws ; two drills, one of them curved ; thirteen round 

 scrapers [figs. 17, 121] (one of them being 

 very fine and large, and another showing 

 in its smoothened edge the signs of long- 

 continued use) ; three long scrapers (one 

 3 in. in length) ; four knives ; three flat 

 circular-shaped flints, such as have usually 

 been called ' sling-stones ;' and four other 

 worked flints, of which it is not easy to 

 say what they have been intended for. 

 There were also three fragments of stone 

 axes, one of them a large chipping from 

 a hone-stone implement, another a part of 

 the edge of one of greenstone, and the 

 third a piece out of the middle of the edge of a very sharp flint 

 axe. A ring of some kind of lignite, brownish-black in colour, was 

 met with 9 ft. south-west of the centre and 2 ft. above the surface- 

 level; it is If in. wide in the inner diameter, 2Jin. in the outer, 

 and oval-shaped in section 2 . The small size of this ring seems to 

 preclude the idea that it can have been intended for an armlet, and 

 it is not unlikely that it may have served some purpose in fastening 

 the dress ; or possibly it may have been used merely as a pendent 

 ornament. 



Fig. 121. 



The two barrows examined next were those adjoining that before 

 alluded to as having been opened many years since, and with it 

 forming a smaller group of three lying close together; they are 

 situated furthest to the west of the whole series constituting the 

 larger group. 



1 The bones comprised those of several oxen (bos longifrons), still more of goat or 

 sheep, also of twelve pigs and two hares. The marrow-containing bones were all split 

 open, and amongst the ox bones was a calcined one. With few exceptions all the 

 animals had been young. 



2 Mr. Bateman records the finding of ' a ring, about 1 \ in. diameter inside, cut 

 from a flat piece of black shale, and fragments of another ring like it,' in a barrow 

 near Pickering, in the North Riding. Ten Years' Diggings, p. 229. 



