350 YORKSHIRE. NORTH RIDING. 



vessel,' somewhat in form like fig. 69, but having- two raised ribs ; 

 and touching it was a flint scraper unburnt, 2 in. long and 1J in. 

 wide. The vase 1 is 5 in. high, 6 in. wide at the mouth, and 3f in. 

 at the bottom. The inside of the lip has two encircling rows of 

 markings and the outside has one ; immediately below that is a 

 second row, the marks being rather longer ; then above and below 

 the second rib is a similar row. The impressions by which the 

 pattern is formed appear to have been made by a square-ended 

 piece of bone or hard wood ; some apparently having been pro- 

 duced by the application of the end and others by that of the 

 side of such an instrument. 



The burnt layer extending throughout the area of the barrow 

 is a very singular feature. Indeed, besides these two cases I 

 have met with but one other [No. Ixxv]. It is not an infrequent 

 occurrence to find places in a barrow where burning has taken 

 place ; but these are limited to a comparatively small area, and 

 do not show signs of having been subjected to so large and 

 long-continued a fire as must have been maintained in these 

 two mounds. The smaller areas of burning I am now speaking of 

 may have been the places where a body had been burnt previously 

 to burial, or where a funeral feast was cooked. But we cannot 

 on like grounds account for the fires which must have been 

 required to produce the effects noted in the present burnt layers. 

 Deposits of burnt bones are also frequently found placed on the 

 site where the pile upon which they were burnt had stood, but 

 in none of the many instances that I have met with where 

 this has occurred was there anything approaching to the remark- 

 able appearance in these barrows, both in respect of the unusually 

 large area over which the burning had extended and of the 

 intensity of the burning itself. 



CXLI. The fourth barrow was 57 ft. in diameter, 5 J ft. high, 

 and made of sand. At the centre and laid upon the natural 

 surface was the primary and only interment, that of the burnt 

 body of an adult, the bones of which were placed in a round 

 heap about 10 in. in diameter. 



CXLII. The fifth barrow was 16ft. in diameter, 1 ft. high, and 

 made of sand. At the centre and (as in the last mound) laid upon 



1 It is engraved in Arch. Journ., vol. xxii. p. 252, fig. 17. 



