308 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



patterns which are found on the various classes of vessels ordinarily- 

 discovered in the barrows. 



XCIX. The next barrow was 60ft. in diameter, 4ft. high, and 

 made of earth with a little chalk intermixed. It had been partially 

 opened by some previous explorer, and the grave, to be afterwards 

 described, had been then to a considerable extent examined ; in 

 that part of the barrow without the grave, which had been dug 

 into on the same occasion, two unburnt bodies had been interred, 

 the remains of which, in the bones of a large man and of a child, 

 were found scattered amongst the disturbed soil. Three bodies 

 had also been discovered in the grave, and the bones belonging 

 to them were met with here and there in that part of the grave 

 which had been opened by the first explorer. One had been that 

 of a young person, the other two those of large men, the one an 

 adult, the other younger; of the latter the legs and feet still 

 remained in their proper position, 2^ ft. below the surface-level, 

 that part of the grave not having been disturbed. The grave 

 was a large one, lying north-north-west and south-south-east, 

 lOJft. by 5ft., and 5J ft. deep. In it, at a depth of 4ft, from 

 the surface-level of the ground and towards the north end, was 

 the body of a strongly-made man about 30 years of age, laid 

 on the left side with the head to N., the hands being up to the face, 

 in front of which was the occipital part of the skull of a young 

 person about 14 years of age. This bone probably belonged to 

 the youngest body, of which portions were found scattered in the 

 grave, and if so, they are the remains of a person whose bones 

 had been first disturbed to put in another body, before they were 

 again removed by the explorer who had dug into the barrow on 

 some former occasion. On the bottom of the grave at the south 

 end was the body of a woman under 30 years of age, laid on 

 the right side, the head being to N.W. The head of this body 

 appeared to be the only part which was in its original position, 

 for the tibias and femurs had their proximal ends close to the 

 skull and the second cervical vertebra (the axis) was two feet 

 away from the head. This disturbance seemed to have been 

 caused by the introduction of the body of a child of 2 or 2J years 

 of age, also laid on the right side, and whose head, which was 

 to N.W., was placed 2ft. from the head of the woman. Close 

 to the face of the woman was a 'drinking cup' [fig. 133], another was 

 close to the child's face [fig. 134], and 2ft. north of the woman's 



