3.20 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



'food vessel,' whilst close to the neck was a roughly-made round 

 flint scraper. There was a great quantity of charcoal immediately 

 above the body. The vase, in shape like fig. 71, with four 

 unpierced ears at the shoulder, is 5| in. high, 5f in. wide at the 

 mouth, and 2J- in. at the bottom. The inside of the lip of the rim 

 has upon it four encircling bands of lines arranged herring-bone 

 fashion ; the outside of the vessel has upon the upper half bands 

 of lines similarly arranged, whilst the lower half has the bands 

 with the lines all sloping to the right ; the whole having been made 

 with a sharp-pointed tool. Three and a-half feet south-west-by- 

 west from the centre, and placed at the surface-level, was the body 

 of a woman past the middle period of life, laid on the left side, with 

 the head to N.E. The arms had been crossed on the stomach, the 

 bones of the left hand being within the hollow of the sacrum. In 

 front of the face was a large flint block. The three last-described 

 burials had been made over a hole, excavated to a depth of 3J ft., 

 having a direction north-east and south-west, and being 11 ft. 

 long and 3 ft. wide, and sloping at the south-west end gradually 

 upwards to the level of the surface. In this hole, at a depth of 

 1 ft., was a great quantity of burnt matter, amongst which 

 were potsherds, bones and the tooth of an ox, and much charcoal ; 

 in the hole, but not amongst the burnt matter, were potsherds, 

 bones of ox, of sheep or goat, and of pig. Under the head of the 

 last-mentioned body, and beneath the large flint block, were some 

 fragments of a f food vessel,' whilst underneath the back was a 

 single piece of a large and thick cinerary urn. It is very difficult to 

 say which, if any, of these bodies represented the primary interment, 

 but on the whole that of the young woman appears to have the best 

 claim to be so considered. On the natural surface, llf ft. south- 

 west-by-south of the centre, was the body of a young person of 

 uncertain sex and under 18 years of age, laid on the right side, 

 with the head to E. At a distance of 12 ft. south-west of the 

 centre, and placed on the natural surface, was a large flint block, 

 which overlaid the much decayed remains of a child. Also on the 

 natural surface, and 16 ft. south-south-west of the centre, were 

 some remains of a body, probably that of a man past middle life, 

 which had gone so much to decay that neither the side on which it 

 was laid nor the direction of the head could be ascertained ; close to 

 the head was a round flint scraper. Amongst the material of the 

 barrow were some potsherds, and many bones of ox, of goat or sheep, 

 and of pig. 



