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on Wykeham Moor and figured at p. 359. This one is 3f in. 

 long and 1 in. wide at the broadest part. The urn, very rudely 

 made and in shape like fig. 54, is 13J in. high, 12 in. wide at 

 the mouth, 13^ in. at the bottom of the overhanging rim, and 4 in. 

 at the bottom. The rim, 3 in. deep, is ornamented with twisted- 

 thong impressions irregularly placed and not forming any distinct 

 pattern. In the material of the barrow were several chippings 

 of flint and a small round scraper, all unburnt. 



CXXXIX. The second barrow was 16 ft. in diameter, 1 ft. high, 

 and was made of sand. The sole interment a burnt body was 

 placed at the centre in a hollow about 12 in. in diameter and 

 sunk 6 in. below the surface of the ground. Over this hollow, 

 and extending beyond the limits of the place of deposit, was a 

 layer of charcoal about an inch thick ; above the charcoal, and 

 continuing over the entire area of the barrow, was a layer of 

 clay and sand about 4 in. thick, evidently indurated by the action 

 of fire. Amongst the materials of the mound was a piece of 

 calcined flint. 



CXL. The third barrow was near to the last one, being only 

 some 50 yds. south of it. It was 60 ft. in diameter, 7-J ft. high, 

 and made of very loose sand. Three feet below the surface of 

 the mound was a layer of mixed sand, clay, and gravel, IJft. 

 thick, consolidated into a hard mass by the agency of fire l . This 

 extended throughout all that part of the barrow which was ex- 

 amined (more than one half of it) on the south and east sides, 

 but at the centre it was almost as hard and as red-coloured as 

 ordinary brick, and must have been subjected to strong and long- 

 continued heat before it could have undergone so great a change. 

 There was therefore in this barrow a burnt layer like to that 

 described in the last one ; but the interment in the present case 

 was above and not beneath the burnt matter. The calcined 

 remains of the body, reduced to a small quantity by the process 

 of burning, were deposited at the centre and were placed im- 

 mediately upon the burnt layer, 4| ft. above the natural surface. 

 With the bones was a rather rudely-formed but well-baked 'food 



1 Mr. Bateman met with a somewhat similar layer in a barrow in Derbyshire. 

 ' About a yard from the bottom a thin ferruginous seam ran through the mound, per- 

 fectly solid and hard, like pottery which might, possibly, be the effect of heat.' Ten 

 Years' Diggings, p. 62. 



