356 YORKSHIRE. NORTH RIDING. 



which was a small round scraper of flint unburnt. The body 

 had been burnt on the spot, but the hole had been excavated 

 after the burning of the body had taken place. 



The whole of the interments in these two groups of barrows, 

 it will be observed, were burials after cremation, a practice 

 which appears to have been the rule in this part of Yorkshire. 

 The number of 'incense cups' found with the interments is a 

 remarkable feature, being very much beyond the ordinary pro- 

 portion. In the case [No. cxlviii] where two ' incense cups ' were 

 discovered accompanying a single deposit of burnt bones, it is 

 probable that the remains of two bodies had been placed there. 

 The bones however had been so completely burnt and thereby 

 reduced to such very small fragments, that it was impossible 

 to ascertain with certainty whether they were the remains of 

 more than one body. In other instances where two vessels have 

 been met with associated with a single deposit of burnt' bones 

 it has been found that two bodies were present, so that it is 

 probable there had been two in the barrow in question ; though 

 it may be remarked that more than one vessel has been sometimes 

 found accompanying a single unburnt body. 



PARISH OF WEXBURN. Ord. Map. xcm. N.E. 



CLI. The barrow now to be described was situated at Carmire, 

 near Castle Howard. It was bowl-shaped, 62 ft. in diameter, and 

 7 ft. high ; it had never been ploughed over, and was probably 

 of its original height. For a depth of about 4 ft. below the 

 surface it was composed of soft earth, very much like what 

 might have been formed from decayed turfs; below that it con- 

 sisted of very hard and solidly-compacted sand and clay. The 

 only burial discovered in the mound, notwithstanding a most 

 thorough and searching examination, was that of a burnt body 

 enclosed in a cinerary urn which had been very much broken 

 and injured in digging for rabbits. The urn had been deposited 

 at the centre of the barrow at a depth of not more than 1^ ft. 

 beneath the surface of the mound, and though the exact size- 

 cannot be detei mined, enough remains to show that it had been 

 one of unusual character. The overhanging rim, which is 2f in. 

 deep, is ornamented with alternate series of vertical and horizontal 

 lines; the series of vertical lines having a vertically-placed zigzag 

 line overrunning them ; while both above and below these alter- 



