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proximity to the bones, though probably not connected with the 

 deposit, a small unburnt leaf-shaped flint arrow-point was met 

 with. The coffin was covered with a layer of blue clay, whilst 

 on each side of it there was placed some clay of a very yellow 

 colour. Amongst the material of the barrow a small flint chip- 

 ping was discovered. 



It is not easy to assign a positive date to the burial in the coffin, 

 for the bowl is only fragmentary, and beads are very uncertain tests 

 of age, the same patterns having prevailed during long periods of 

 time. Upon the whole, however, I incline to attribute it to a post- 

 Roman and possibly Anglian date; and I believe the burial of an 

 unburnt body had been made in a previously existing sepulchral 

 mound where the original interment had been one after cremation. 



PARISH OF WARCOP. Ord. Map. en. S.E. 



At Sandford in the parish of Warcop, some miles lower down 

 the valley of the Eden than Kirby Stephen, are two barrows closely 

 adjoining each other and situated upon rising ground. One was 

 opened in 1766, when an apparently ' Anglo-Saxon ' interment was 

 found close beneath the surface. With the remains of the body 

 were associated some portions of an urn, a sword, a spear-head and 

 another iron article which the explorer could not identify, though 

 it may possibly have been a knife. At the bottom, under a small 

 cairn of stones placed within the larger mound, was a deposit of 

 burnt bones l . It appears probable that in this barrow, as in that 

 last described, an older British place of sepulture had been made 

 use of by one of the later occupants of the country; in both cases 

 the earlier burial being after cremation, the later by inhumation. 



CLXXI. The other barrow I examined myself: it was 72 ft. in 

 diameter, and still, though to some degree ploughed down, 5 ft. in 

 height ; it was composed of sand. The only burial contained in it 

 was of an unburnt body (or perhaps of two) ; for though the bones 

 were so much decayed as to render it impossible to distinguish their 

 relative positions, they seemed to cover a space too wide to have 

 been occupied by merely a single skeleton. These remains were 

 found at the centre of the mound and laid upon the natural surface ; 

 a good deal of charcoal was scattered in juxtaposition with the 



1 Archaeologia, vol. iii. p. 273. 

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