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barrow last described is so complete, in respect of size, shape, 

 style of ornament, and manner of fabrication, that there can 

 be little doubt that they must both have proceeded from the 

 hands of the same workman. If this supposition be true, it 

 would appear that no great length of time had elapsed between 

 the erection of the two barrows ; a fact which is not without a 

 certain significance when the period during which the same 

 mode of interment in the barrows and the character of the 

 pottery contained in them is under consideration. It might be 

 said that if we have two separate barrows in a group, the 

 principal interment in one of which and the only interment in 

 the other are so near in point of time that the vessel of pottery 

 associated with each must have been made by the same hand, 

 the burials in the whole group can scarcely have extended 

 over any very long space of time ; and indeed the argument is 

 not without force. The circumstance is a singular one in my 

 experience, for I have never before met with two vases which 

 could fairly be claimed as the productions of the same maker, 

 except in instances where they have occurred in the same barrow. 

 Nor should I feel inclined, without much fuller evidence than 

 this isolated case affords, to limit the time during which the 

 particular mode of burial met with in the wold barrows prevailed 

 to so short a period as might seem to be implied by the discovery 

 of two vases made by the same potter in two barrows of a group. 

 The circumstance that one of these vessels has the ears pierced, 

 whilst the other has them left without any perforation, is not 

 easy of explanation, supposing them to have been the work of 

 the same hand. I have stated elsewhere that the unpierced ear 

 is a survival, and have regarded those vessels which have the 

 ears pierced as the earlier ones, but in this instance the two classes 

 appear to have been contemporaneous, though we may perhaps 

 regard them as having been manufactured at a time when the 

 provision for suspension was dying out. The lining out of the 

 grave with wood, though by no means of common occurrence 

 in the barrows of the wolds generally, was found in several of 

 the sepulchral mounds on Goodmanham Wold ; the wood however 

 does not appear, except in this instance, to have covered the body, 

 but only to have been placed around and under it. Amongst the 

 material of the barrow the incisor of a pig was met with. 



The next six barrows were situated a little further to the west 



