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YORKSHIBB. NORTH RIDING. 



I believe to be the true one) is that an unburnt body had been 

 deposited upon the layer of clay and then covered over with the 

 large flag-stones, and that in consequence of the free admission 

 of air and water, and from other disintegrating causes, due to the 

 pervious nature of the overlying material, the bones had gone 

 entirely to decay. Some pieces of charcoal and two chippings of 

 flint were found amongst the material of the mound. 



CXXVIII. About half-a-mile to the south of the last-described 



Fig. 138. *. 



barrow was another, on the left hand of the road ascending Sutton 

 Brow and within a few yards of the edge of the cliff. It was 44 ft. 

 in diameter, 5 ft. high, and was formed of earth and clay with a few 

 stones intermingled. Three feet east-south-east of the centre, 

 and having its mouth placed but 1 ft. below the surface of the 

 barrow, was a cinerary urn standing upright. It was filled to the 

 top with a deposit of the burnt bones of a person of full age but of 

 small size. The urn [fig. 138] is 12 in. high, 9 in. wide at the 

 mouth, and 4 in. at the bottom, with an overhanging rim orna- 

 mented on the inside of the lip with one encircling line, and on 

 the outside with two at the top and as many at the bottom, the 

 space between being marked out into a series of triangles, alter- 



