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YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



notched piece of bone or wood. Under it was a flint flake 2J in. long 1 , 

 which, though there is no secondary flaking upon it, shows signs of 

 use and has probably served the purposes of a knife. At the centre, 

 and a little above the level of the natural surface, was the body of 

 probably a woman, past the middle period of life, laid on the right 

 side, the head being to E.N.E., and the hands crossed on the 

 stomach. Behind the head was placed a ' food vessel ' [fig. 136] 

 of peculiar form, and roughly made of badly- wrought clay. It is 

 6| in. high, the same in width at the mouth, and 3 in. at the 

 bottom, and has six unpierced ears close to the top. The form 



Fig. 136. ^ 



and ornamentation, made by the application of a semicircular- 

 ended implement, will be easily understood from the figure. Above 

 the body were some human bones, burnt and unburnt, the 

 remains probably of bodies disturbed by the introduction of that 

 just noticed, and several pieces of a * drinking cup/ Below this 

 body, which was placed over the east side of it, was a grave, 

 covered with blocks of flint. It was 8 ft. long, 5 ft. wide, 3f ft. 

 deep, and had a direction east and west. At the east side of the 

 grave, the head and hips resting on the edge of it, was the 

 body of an old man, whose head was to N.E. by N., laid on the left 

 side, with the hands up to the face. The legs and other parts of 

 the body had settled down, by the shrinking of the materials in the 



