300 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



of a * drinking cup.' A round flint scraper and a chipping* from a 

 ground stone axe were also found in the mound. Some bones of a 

 young and some of an old ox, and of a goat or sheep, were met 

 with. 



XC. This barrow, one of the larger of the group and lying the 

 furthest to the south, was found to contain, as is frequently the case 

 with the larger-sized burial mounds,, a single interment. It may 

 very possibly have been used for secondary burials all trace of 

 which had disappeared under the lowering process to which it 

 had been subjected during many years by the action of the plough. 

 If any such had once existed they must have been quite superficial, 

 and made probably long after the construction of the mound. It 

 was 100 ft. in diameter, and still 8 ft. high, and was formed of very 

 tenacious clayey earth. At the centre, in a shallow hollow sunk 

 through the surface-soil on to the chalk rock, and which had been 

 lined with wood, was the body of a strongly-made man, about 

 30 years of age, laid on the right side, with the head to S.W. 

 by W., the hands meeting on the hips. Between the face and the 

 knees, and touching the right knee, was a ' food vessel/ upon which 

 was lying a small piece of animal bone ; whilst close to the right 

 shoulder was a flint flake, which appeared to have been inten- 

 tionally placed with the body, being underneath the remains of 

 wood which, apparently in the shape of planks, had been laid 

 over the body. The vase is in shape much like fig. 70, but 

 without any ears at the shoulder; it is 5J in. high, 7 in. wide at 

 the mouth, and 2| in. at the bottom. The ornamentation is all due 

 to impressions of twisted-thong, and consists of four encircling lines 

 on the inside of the lip of the rim, whilst the outside has a pattern 

 similar to that on fig. 70, and extending to where the ears are placed 

 on that vase. Then follows, at the shoulder, a zigzag line which has 

 the alternate spaces filled in with lines parallel to the sides of the 

 reversed triangles of which the spaces consist. Below, for a depth 

 of If in., there is a pattern similar to that on the corresponding 

 part of fig. 70 ; the remainder of the vase being plain. 



If we may judge from the size of the barrow, and perhaps 

 also from the circumstance that it was devoted to a sole occupant, it 

 may I think be fairly presumed that the body was that of a chief 

 of a tribe or other person of note and importance. In this barrow 

 it will be observed there was no grave, and the same is frequently 

 found to be the case in the higher and larger burial mounds. 



