NOTE. 



WHILE this sheet was passing through the press, a very important 

 discovery was accidentally made of a ' Late Keltic ' interment, at Arras, 

 in the East Hiding of Yorkshire, and in close proximity to a number 

 of burials found by the Rev. E. W. Stillingfleet in 1816-17, which are 

 shortly noticed at pp. 50 n. and 208 of this work. I have, since the 

 discovery, visited the place, and obtained, with a single exception, every- 

 thing that was met with ; and from what I observed myself, as well as 

 from careful enquiries made on the spot, I am enabled to give what 

 I believe is a substantially accurate account of the grave and its 

 contents. 



There appeared to have been a small barrow, about 14 ft. in diameter 

 and 1 \ ft. high, underneath which a grave had been sunk into the chalk 

 rock; it was circular, 12 ft. in diameter and 3 ft. deep. On the bottom 

 was deposited the skeleton of probably a woman on the left side, with 

 the head to W., and the left hand up to the face. The workmen were 

 decidedly of opinion that the body had been laid at full length, though 

 certainly the contracted position was that which was usually adopted at 

 the time of these burials. Mr. Stillingfleet however records that, in one 

 of the Arras barrows, a man was found buried with the remains of 

 a chariot, and placed in the grave at full length, and from some notes 

 of his which I have seen other bodies appear to have been interred in 

 the same position. Immediately behind the head were numerous bones, 

 the remains of what had apparently been, when interred, the fore-part 

 of the carcases of two tame pigs. Below the head was a mirror, made of 

 iron, with a handle of the same metal having a loop, J in. wide, at the end. 

 The mirror is circular, 6 J in. in diameter, and the handle, which is square 

 in section, is 6 J in. long. Where the handle is fixed to the mirror there 

 is an ornamental plating of bronze, and a similarly shaped but smaller 

 piece is applied where the loop is attached at the end of the handle ; 

 the bronze plating is fastened to the iron by small rivets, also of bronze. 

 Bronze mirrors of the Early Iron Period, in some instances highly 

 decorated with the peculiar and characteristic designs of that time, have 

 been discovered in various places in Britain, but this is the first occur- 

 rence but one that I am acquainted with where an iron mirror has been 



