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YORKSHIRE. NORTH RIDING. 



Fig. 152. 



been made by the application of a twisted thong ; the impres- 

 sions on the overhang-ing rim appear to have been made with 

 the end of a roughly-pointed tool drawn towards the maker, those 

 on the part below the rim were probably made by a knot tied in a 

 thong, though it is not easy to say precisely in what way they have 

 been formed. The smaller urn [fig. 152], of the same general 



shape as the larger, is 7 in. high, 6 in. 

 wide at the mouth, and 3J in. at the 

 bottom ; some of the impressions upon 

 it have been made with twisted thong, 

 and others apparently with a piece of 

 bone or wood having somewhat of a 

 square end, the edge having been some- 

 times used for that purpose, and some- 

 times one of the corners. Immediately 

 south-east of the larger urn, and like it 

 placed upon the natural surface, was a 

 small cinerary urn, very rudely made, 

 standing upright ; it was filled with 

 burnt bones, and had others lying around 

 it, as though it had not been able to contain all the remains of 

 the body, which was that of a young person. It is some- 

 what like fig. 56, 6f in. high, 5 in. wide at the mouth, 3 in. 

 at the bottom, and 6^ in. at the lower part of the overhanging rim, 

 which is marked with irregularly-placed impressions of loosely- 

 twisted thong arranged after a rude herring-bone fashion. About 

 6 ft. south-west of the centre, and immediately below the surface of 

 the barrow, were laid three flat stones, and beneath them was a 

 deposit of the burnt bones of an adult, with a small cinerary urn 

 much crushed and decayed. In shape it is roughly like fig. 54, 

 rudely made, 7^ in. high, 5f in. in diameter at the mouth, 7J in. at 

 the base of the overhanging rim (which is 1| in. deep), and 3 in. 

 wide at the bottom. The overhanging rim has an encompassing 

 line round the top, the remainder being occupied by alternate 

 series of vertical and horizontal lines, all of thong-impressions ; the 

 rest of the urn is plain. Amongst the bones were a portion of a 

 large and well-made barbed arrow-point and three other fragments 

 of flint, the whole calcined. The barrow throughout presented 

 many evidences of much burning. On the south side a great 

 quantity of burnt earth and stones was laid on the natural surface ; 

 and on the north side were large masses of charcoal ; in fact, for 



