362 YORKSHIRE. NORTH RIDING. 



a distance of 14 ft. from the outer circumference, enclosed the 

 central portion of the barrow. At a distance of 19 ft. south of the 

 centre a cinerary urn was met with, in a reversed position, and 

 containing 1 a deposit of burnt bones, those of a person above 

 20 years of age. It was placed not more than 1 ft. below the 

 surface of the mound, and in consequence the bottom of it had been 

 much injured by digging for rabbits. The urn, a large one, 

 approaching in form to fig. 56, is 16 in. high and 15| in. wide at 

 the mouth ; it is very well made and shows great skill in its 

 fabrication, especially when its size and the circumstance that it is 

 hand-made are taken into consideration. For a depth of 6 in. below 

 the rim it is ornamented with nine encompassing rows of im- 

 pressions made by a round-ended instrument applied obliquely 

 from below. The inside of the lip, which is 2 in. deep, has two 

 similar rows of impressions, but formed with an oblong-ended 

 instrument, the marks being each |- in. long and J in. wide ; on 

 the edge of the lip, and also between the two rows on the inside, 

 is a band of short diagonal lines or strokes inclining to the right, 

 made with a sharp-pointed tool. On the south-east side of the 

 barrow, and just within the stone circle above-named, a triangular- 

 shaped pendant of inferior jet or some other lignite was met with, 

 laid under a flat stone placed on the natural surface. It is rather 

 roughly fashioned, and is 1J in. long, 1 in. wide at the lower part, 

 and perforated near to the top. Not far from it, and lying 

 together, were two peculiarly-formed scrapers and a knife, 2f in. 

 long and curved on one edge, all of flint ; it is possible that the 

 two implements I have called scrapers may have been knives, and 

 perhaps they are better adapted for cutting than for scraping. 



About a mile to the north of ' The Three Tremblers,' upon the 

 verge of the ground which slopes rapidly into Troutsdale, were 

 three barrows placed close together. 



CLIV. The first, 30ft. in diameter and 4ft. high, was entirely 

 made of small stones, and had a circle of much larger stones round 

 the base. The several interments it was found to contain were laid 

 upon a flooring of small pebble-stones resting on the natural 

 surface. Nine feet north-west of the centre was a deposit of burnt 

 bones, covering a space of about 15 in. in diameter. Six feet north- 

 by-east from the centre was a second deposit of burnt bones, rather 

 widely scattered over an area about 3 ft. in diameter. In each 



