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being considered as such decorations. Six feet south of the centre, 

 and on the natural surface, was the body of a very strongly-made 

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

 head to S.E., the right hand being on the knees, the left at the 

 right shoulder and the fingers turned towards it. At the feet was 

 a vessel of pottery in a fragmentary state, as indeed it must have 

 been when placed in the barrow. There is nothing left but the 

 bottom (4 in. wide) and about the same in height of the sides ; it is 

 entirely covered with impressions, made apparently by the finger- 

 nail, arranged in lines surrounding the vessel. At the centre, but 

 much destroyed by the plough, were some bones of a child and 

 pieces of a ' food vessel/ and immediately underneath them and on 

 the natural surface, with some flint stones placed over it, was the 

 body of an adult, probably a man, laid on the left side ; there was 

 no head, but if present it would have pointed to N.E. ; it did not 

 however appear as if that part of the body had ever been buried 

 there. The arms were crossed in front of the stomach, and on the 

 knees was part of the skull of a different body, of which another 

 portion was found not very far from it. 



The two following barrows, a little to the north-east of the last, 

 were situated upon a road, set apart on the division of the wold, 

 called the Kiplingcotes Race-course. It gets its name from annual 

 races held there to contest for a sum, the interest of money 

 subscribed by a number of the Yorkshire gentry in the sixteenth 

 century, and it may lay claim to be one of the earliest race-courses 

 in England, though its reputation has now sunk to but a low ebb. 

 In consequence of the piece of ground in question having never 

 been under the plough the barrows were of their original size, and 

 they presented somewhat novel features. 



CXVI. The first was 23 ft. in diameter and 1 ft. high. It was 

 covered over the whole surface with blocks of flint, and the number 

 which had been used in that operation implies a considerable 

 excavation of the chalk rock from which they must have been taken, 

 for they did not present the characteristics of flints which had been 

 lying on the surface for any length of time. Upon the level of the 

 natural surface was found the body apparently of a small-sized 

 woman, but, in consequence of the exposure to atmospheric and 

 other agencies to which the shallowness of the burial had subjected 

 the body, it was so much decayed that nothing as to its position 



