282 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



It will be remarked that, contrary to the ordinary custom of 

 burial on the wolds, this group was found to contain, with one 

 exception, bodies which had been interred after having been burnt. 

 In the seven barrows which were examined nine places of interment 

 were met with, and of these there was but one where an un- 

 burnt body had been buried. The same departure from the 

 prevailing custom will be found in a section of a large group of 

 barrows to be presently described, where thirteen burials in five 

 barrows had all been after cremation. 



PARISH OF ETTON. Ord. Map. xciv. s.w. 



About a mile to the north-east of the village of Etton there are 

 five small barrows lying a little apart from each other. Two of 



Fig. 128. f. 



them had been opened many years ago with I know not what 

 result, the remaining three I examined. 



LXXVI. The first was 50 ft. in diameter, 1| ft. high, and made 

 of earth. It contained a single interment at the centre, that of an 

 adult woman. The body had been burnt on the spot, over a 

 hollow 3 ft. wide and 9 in. deep, in which the bones were found 

 deposited. At the west side of this hollow, with some charcoal 

 placed round it, was a small vessel of pottery [fig. 128], and 

 amongst the bones was a broad flint flake calcined. The site of 

 the funeral pile, which was very clearly defined by the reddened 

 earth, occupied a space of 7 ft. in diameter. In the barrow were 

 found the half of a long flint scraper and several flint chippings. 



