274 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



3| ft. deep. Close to the north side of the grave, and just below 

 its surface, was a deposit of burnt bones, those of a child at least 

 twelve years old, and immediately underneath them, at a depth of 

 6 in., was a f food vessel, 3 in form like fig. 69, quite destitute of 

 ornamentation, 3f in. high, 4Jin. wide at the mouth, and 2J in. at 

 the bottom. Though not in actual contact with the bones, there 

 can be scarcely any doubt that the vessel was intended to be as- 

 sociated with the interment; and though it is not usual to meet 

 with the vase separate from the body, yet it has been found in 

 other instances a little apart from it. At the bottom of the grave, 

 which was flagged with chalk slabs, and on the south side of it, 

 was the body of a young man about 24 years of age, laid on the 

 right side, with the head to S.S.E., the hands being up to the face. 

 In front of the chest was a curved pin, made from the tusk of 

 a boar [fig. 9] ; it has three holes and the broken part of a fourth 

 perforated through it at the broader end. From its form, and the 

 place where it was found, there can be little doubt that it had 

 served to fasten the dress of the buried person. Below the head 

 was part of another boar's tusk, which has been rubbed down 

 to a sharp edge on one side, and which seems to have been in- 

 tended for a knife or some similar instrument. It will be re- 

 membered that an article of the same kind was met with in 

 one of the Cowlam barrows [No. Ivii]. In front of the face were 

 some of the bones of the right fore-leg of a young pig 1 , possibly the 

 remains of food deposited with the dead man ; as the several bones 

 were in their proper order, it is probable that the flesh was still 

 upon them when they were placed in the grave. Within the grave, 

 but not connected with the body, were some bones of pig and the 

 tooth of an ox ; and also a bone implement [fig. 36]. A few 

 potsherds occurred amongst the material of the barrow. 



LXXI. On the opposite side of the narrow valley before men- 

 tioned, and, like the last barrow, situated upon a piece of wold 

 which had never been cultivated, was another grave-mound. It 

 was placed just to the west of one of the entrenchments so abundant 

 on the wolds, and it had apparently been constructed at an earlier 

 period than the mound which formed part of the defensive work, 

 for the side of the barrow appeared to have been partly cut away 



1 In a grave under a barrow at Arras, East Riding, a body was discovered, and 

 ' close to the upper part of the skeleton was part of the skull and two or three bones 

 of the foreleg of a young pig.' Crania Brit., pi. 6, 7. p. 7. 



