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and on the natural surface, was much burnt earth. A third cist 

 was discovered 16i ft. south-east of the centre. It was placed 3 ft. 

 above the surface-level, and consisted of two side slabs, and one 

 across the corner, with three flags on the bottom ; the cover 

 stones and the other side stones had, probably, been removed when 

 the mound was ploughed over, as the top was so close to the 

 surface that they must have come in contact with the plough. It 

 was 2 ft. 8 in. by 2 ft. 6 in., and 1 ft. deep ; and on the bottom was 

 the body of a woman, past the middle period of life, laid on the 

 right side, the head to S.W. by W., the hands being on the hips ; 

 some few burnt bones were likewise found in the cist. In that part 

 of the barrow which I have presumed to be of a later construction 

 than the original mound, and where the cist-burials were met 

 with, several flint chippings and some pieces of plain dark-coloured 

 pottery occurred. 



It remains now to describe the primary long barrow and the way 

 in which the burials had taken place within it. The same manner 

 of disposing of the bodies had been followed in this as in the two 

 last-described barrows ; the burials had been made in a deposit 

 running through the centre of the longer diameter of the mound, 

 at its eastern extremity. There were, however, some features in 

 this differing from what was observed at Scamridge and on Willerby 

 Wold. The mound was not quite east and west, having a slight 

 deviation towards the south at the one end and towards the north 

 at the other. I will however, for the sake of brevity, speak of the 

 barrow and the mesial deposit in which the burials were placed, 

 and which had the same direction as the enclosing mound, as being 

 east and west : in this, as in all the other long barrows I have 

 examined in Yorkshire, the east end being that where the inter- 

 ments had been made. The mesial deposit commenced just within 

 the eastern verge of the mound, and continued, for a distance of 

 about 30 ft., towards the west, where it ceased. It had a general 

 width of 4J ft., and reached to the present surface of the barrow. 

 The commencement of this deposit at the east end requires a careful 

 and minute description, which I now proceed to give. At a 

 distance of about 11 ft. south fro'm the place where the deposit had 

 its beginning, measuring from the middle of the line of that 

 deposit, an excavation was met with, running south-by-west and 

 north-by-east, 6J ft. wide at the top, and continuing of that width 

 for a depth of 1 ft., when it narrowed to a width of 4i ft. on the 

 east side, and was sunk 13 in. lower into the rock ; this oblong 



