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effected by the aid of a metal instrument, and if so the metal must 

 undoubtedly have been bronze. Another interment, consisting of 

 the burnt bones of a person of moderate size and probably under 

 thirty years of age, was found immediately east of the present 

 centre and about 3 ft. above the natural surface. This deposit, 

 which from its position was in all probability the primary one, was 

 placed without any protection amongst the stones of which the 

 barrow was constructed. About the centre of the deposit of 

 bones was a vessel of pottery, which did not however contain any of 

 them ; it is of the type to which the name of ' food vessel ' has 

 been applied, and is rudely made, in shape somewhat like fig. 69, 

 5^ in. high, 5f in. wide at the mouth, and 2f in. at the bottom.. It 

 is ornamented near to the top with two pairs of encircling lines of 

 impressions, placed half-an-inch apart, made apparently by a square- 

 ended piece of wood. The inside of the lip of the rim bears a 

 row of similar impressions. Amongst the material of the barrow 

 some calcined chippings of flint were met with. 



CXXV. Upon Egton South Moors are placed in close contiguity 

 three barrows which bear the name of the * Three Howes.' I 

 examined the northernmost one of them, which was 68 ft. in 

 diameter and 7J ft. high. It was composed of alternate layers of 

 sand and what had apparently once been turfs, with here and there, 

 but at wide intervals, a stone or two. It was evident that the 

 mound had never been in the slightest degree disturbed since it 

 was first erected, for the successive layers of yellow sand and dark- 

 coloured turf were perfectly unbroken. Twenty-five feet south of 

 the centre of the mound, and only 14 in. below its surface, was a 

 deposit of burnt bones laid in a round heap about 1 ft. in diameter. 

 Nine feet east of the present centre, and 4ft. above the natural 

 surface, was a second deposit of burnt bones, also laid in a round 

 heap 10 in. in diameter. There seems to be little room for doubt 

 that this had been the primary interment and had originally been 

 placed at the centre of the barrow, which however, as is not un- 

 frequently found to be the case, had been lost in throwing up the 

 mound. A single fragment of a calcined flint-chipping was the 

 only article in the whole mass of this large barrow which showed 

 any signs of handiwork. 



It will be observed that both in this and in the preceding barrow 

 the supposed original interment had been placed, not as is usually 

 the case in a hollow sunk below the surface or else upon the natural 



