

YORKSHIRE. WEST BIDING. 



PARISH OF FERRY FRYSTON. Ord. Map. LXXXVII. N.W. 



CLXI. This barrow, the only one I have opened in the district, 

 was placed upon a knoll of limestone on the slope of the hill which 

 rises from the river Aire near Ferrybridge. It was situated in 

 ' Roundhill Field,' which evidently takes its name from the barrow. 

 In the year 1811 it had been partly removed by the then tenant, 

 who found it inconvenient to plough over ; but he met with so 

 many bones in the course of his operations that he desisted from the 

 work, taking care to have the bones he had disturbed re-interred in 

 Fryston Churchyard. One of these bodies is said to have been ' in 

 armour/ and it is very probable that the finding of the skeleton of 

 an Anglian man, with his sword, shield-boss and knife, may have 

 given rise to the report. In the year 1863 the barrow was again 

 opened to some extent by two persons belonging to the neighbour- 

 hood, who found at the centre, and not above a foot below the 

 surface of the mound, two bodies interred at full length, the one 

 overlying the other. Not very far from these skeletons were some 

 portions of red-deer antlers, and fragments of two vessels, one 

 a cinerary urn 10 in. high, the other a smaller one 3 in. high, and 

 of a type customarily found with burnt bodies. The feet of the two 

 skeletons had been previously dug away, and the urns were not in 

 their proper positions, having evidently been removed from some 

 other part of the barrow to the place at which they were found. It 

 is not unlikely that this had taken place in 1811, when the farmer 

 began to remove the mound. These two bodies, the upper one 

 being that of a large-sized adult man, the under one of a shorter but 

 more strongly framed person, were probably Angles and introduced 

 long after the erection of the barrow. About 18 in. to the left of 

 these, but at a somewhat greater depth, was a third body, also laid 



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