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was specially associated, for it was equally in contact with both ; 

 the presumption however is that it belonged to the unburnt 

 body. It is a very beautifully made vase, like fig. 71, 4Jin. high, 

 5-J- in. wide at the mouth, where it is rather narrower than at the 

 shoulder, and 2J in. at the bottom, which is hollowed ; there are 

 four perforated ears at the shoulder. It is entirely covered 

 (including the lip which has four of them) with encompassing 

 rows of very short lines arranged herring-bone fashion and made 

 with a pointed tool ; there are twenty-seven rows on the outside 

 of the vase, and they overrun the ears. A little to the east of 

 where the cist was found in 1863, was a large flat stone, covering 

 a deposit of dark-coloured earthy matter ; and somewhat to the 

 south of this was another stone covering a similar deposit, and 

 below it a layer (5 in. thick) of fine sand. The two stones were 

 placed about a foot above the natural surface. At the centre, and 

 sunk into the limestone rock, was a grave 6ft. in diameter and 

 2 ft. deep. In it, towards the west, was a body laid on the right 

 side, with the head to S.W., and having the hands up to the face. 

 At the feet was a 'drinking cup' on its side, and in the angle 

 between the right femur and tibia, allowing for the contracted 

 position of the body, was a small and thin bronze awl or pricker 

 much oxidised; it is now ! T Vi n - long. The 'drinking cup,' in 

 shape much like fig. 81, is 6f in. high, 4f in. wide at the mouth, 

 and 2f in. at the bottom. The upper part for a depth of 2 Jin. has 

 three bands of vertical lines, each band placed between two 

 encompassing lines ; below there is a zigzag of two lines, the lower 

 triangular spaces of which are filled in with short lines, not placed 

 very regularly ; below this is a plain band f in. deep, then two 

 bands of vertical lines, each placed between two lines as on the 

 upper part ; and the lowest portion for a space of 2 in. has a band 

 of vertical lines nearly 2 in. long, over which is an encompassing line 

 very irregularly drawn. The whole of the impressions are made by 

 a notched piece of bone, an instrument which has been very 

 commonly used in the decoration of this class of sepulchral vessels. 

 There was a good deal of charcoal about the body; and above and 

 near the sides of the grave were numerous remains of unburnt 

 human bones, probably due to the disturbance of a previously buried 

 person by the interment of the body met with in the grave. 



This barrow presented many features in common with those on 

 the wolds. For instance, the two burial customs, after cremation 

 and by inhumation, were evidenced, and in one case both had 



