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portion, of iron, being 1 \ in. long. The article which was unfortunately 

 lost was made of very thin bronze, and shaped like a round box lid ; 

 it was a little more than 1 in. in diameter, and not quite as much in 

 depth. "When found it had the remains of wood still within it, and there 

 were two long thin pins on opposite sides by which it had been fastened 

 to the wood. The workmen described it as being just like the metal end 

 of a whip shank, and it is not improbable that it had originally served 

 that purpose. 



The principal features connected with this interment, though dif- 

 fering in some respects, have a marked resemblance to those in the two 

 instances where Mr. Stillingfleet met with the remains of a chariot. 

 In all the three cases the wheels of the chariot and the bits of the horses 

 were found, in one of those opened in 1816-17 the skeletons of the horses 

 themselves having been discovered. The remains of pig, in one shape 

 or another, occurred in all the three, as also in a fourth interment re- 

 corded by Dr. Thurnam in the Crania Britannica, and portions of the horse- 

 trappings appear also to have been found in each case. In that barrow 

 in which the horses had been buried, many more articles connected with 

 the chariot seem to have been placed in the grave than in either of the 

 other two ; indeed it is possible that the whole of the chariot had been 

 deposited there. In the other barrow opened in 1816-17 the man was 

 laid upon what seems to have been his shield, the boss of bronze and the 

 iron rim having been preserved. The mirror constitutes an almost 

 singular and a very interesting feature in the burial under notice 1 . As 

 has been stated already, in one of the graves at Arras it would appear 

 that the whole of the chariot, with the horses, had been buried, but in 

 the other two nothing more than the wheels seem to have been placed 

 in the grave. Certainly the horses themselves had not been interred, 

 for their bones must have remained as perfectly preserved as those of the 

 buried person. In a small barrow I opened at Beverley, in 1875, the 

 same mode of burial had apparently been adopted, for in that instance the 

 two wheels of the chariot and what is almost certainly an iron bit were 

 the only articles discovered in the grave. In that barrow however 

 no bones, either of man or beast, were found, but from the nature 

 of the soil it might have been expected that they would have gone 

 entirely to decay. It is strange that a part only of a chariot should be 

 buried with the owner, but such seems to have been the case, for it is 

 almost impossible but that many more articles of metal should have been 

 discovered, if the whole chariot had ever been there, inasmuch as a 



1 Mr. Faussett found, with the body of a woman, in a grave at Gilton, Kent, a 

 mirror, made of mixed metal, in shape much like this under notice. The burial was, 

 however, a Teutonic one. It is described in Inventorium Sepulchrale, p. 31, and 

 engraved at pi. xiii. fig. 12. 



