PA1JISH OF GOODMANHAM. 



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The outside of the vase for a depth of 3 in. is ornamented with two 

 encircling bands, consisting* of vertical lines of similar impressions to 

 those on the lip. At the centre of the barrow was the body of a power- 

 fully-made man beyond middle life, laid on the back at full length, 

 in a slight hollow sunk below the natural surface and which had 

 been lined with wood. The head was to the west, the right hand 

 on the stomach, the left arm gone too much to decay to allow of its 

 position being traced. On the right side of the head was a ' food 

 vessel,' laid on its side, and having the mouth closed with clay; 

 and under it were two small round flint scrapers. The vase in 

 general shape is not unlike that just above described, but is much 

 more carefully manufactured and elegantly formed ; it is 6J in. 

 high, the same in width at the mouth, and 3 in. wide at the bottom. 

 On the inside of the lip of the rim, which is nearly an inch wide, 

 are six encircling lines of very finely-twisted thong-impressions, in 

 sets of three each. On the outside of the rim, just below the lip, 

 which has a similar line upon it, is an encircling line of short 

 vertical and coarser thong-impressions ; then comes an encircling 

 line of the coarser thong-impressions, then three sets, each of three 

 encircling lines of the same fine impressions as those inside the lip, 

 and then, commencing below the shoulder, three bands of short 

 lines of coarse thong-impressions, arranged slightly herring-bone 

 fashion ; the remainder of the vase, 3| in. in depth, is quite plain. 

 The inside towards the bottom is encrusted with a deposit of black 

 carbonaceous-looking matter, which on analysis has proved to 

 contain a large quantity of nitrogen, and is therefore probably of 

 animal origin. 



This barrow produced the fourth instance within my experience 

 (three of them being in this group) where the body had been interred 

 at full length. In this case, as in one at Rudstone [No. Ixix], 

 a { food vessel ' and an implement of flint were associated with 

 the interment ; and as the vessels and implements are quite of 

 the same character as those ordinarily found with contracted bodies, 

 it is evident that all these burials, if they do not belong ,to 

 precisely the same period, at all events belong to people who were 

 living under the same conditions, manufacturing the same kind of 

 pottery, and using similar implements. In fact, the interments in 

 question are such as are ordinarily found in the round barrows of 

 the wolds, but in these instances, for some reason or other not now 

 capable of explanation, the usual custom of contracting the body 

 had been departed from. 



