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nately placed, each filled in with parallel diagonal lines. Below 

 the rim a space of 3J in. deep is occupied by a double zigzag line, 

 having below that a row of short lines set about half-an-inch apart. 

 All the impressions are those of twisted-thong. At the centre of 

 the mound and just beneath its surface were a few stones placed 

 together for the protection of a second cinerary urn, whose top was 

 met with 2 ft. below them. The urn [fig. 54], which stood upright, 

 was carefully packed round with clay and charcoal in large pieces 1 . 

 It was deposited about 1 ft. above the natural surface, the inter- 

 vening space having been filled in with well-worked clay. The 

 bones which it contained, those of a young person of average 

 size, were so completely burnt that they occupied a space of only 

 a few inches at the bottom of the urn, which is however no less 

 than 16 in. high, 12^ in. wide at the mouth, 16 in. at the bottom of 

 the overhanging rim, and 4J in. at the bottom. The pattern on it, 

 which will be best understood from the figure, is made on the rim 

 by impressions of twisted-thong, and below the rim by markings 

 made with an oval-ended instrument of bone or wood. Amongst 

 the material of the barrow were found scattered here and there 

 numerous chippings of flint, a round flint scraper, and various sherds 

 of pottery. 



PARISH OF KILBURN. Ord. Map. xcvi. s.w. 



Further south than the site of the last barrow, and forming 

 part of the continuation of the high land of the Hambleton range 

 of hills, is Wass Moor. The moorland is here bounded on the east 

 by the valley of the Rye, and numerous remains indicating an 

 early occupation have been placed upon it. Amongst these are 

 many barrows, most of which have been opened at some former 

 time, and without anything more than a very imperfect record 

 having been preserved. So far as can be learned from this slight 

 account, and supplementing it from the recollection of people living 

 in the neighbourhood who remember the opening of some of them, 

 the greater number, if not the whole, appear to have contained 

 burials after cremation. In this they correspond to what has been 

 found to be the rule in Cleveland, as has already been stated ; and 



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1 Under a cairn near Swansea, in a hollow excavated below the natural surface, an 

 urn was found packed round with charcoal, which filled up the space between the urn 

 and the sides of the hole. Archaeol. Cambr., 3rd Ser., vol. ii. p. 63. 



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