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PAEISH OF RUDSTONE, EAST RIDING. 497 



dislocated state in which they have been observed in many long- 

 barrows, not only in Yorkshire but in other parts of England. 



PARISH OF RUDSTONE, EAST RIDING. Ord. Map. xciv. N.W. 



CCXXIV. The long barrow now to be described was, both in 

 shape and in the peculiar nature of its construction and contents, 

 a very remarkable one. In reality, it consists of two long mounds 

 joined together, and forming a V-shaped structure. The interments 

 contained in it were confined to what I will call the northern limb. 

 This, which ran in a direction west-north-west and east-south-east, 

 was 210 ft. long by 75 ft. wide at the east and 45 ft. at the west 

 end ; and, having been much ploughed down, it is now but 4 ft. 

 in height at the east, and decreases to about 1 ft. at the western 

 extremity. It is made of earth and chalk. The south limb, also 

 composed of earth and chalk, and running in a direction north-east 

 and south-west, is 255 ft. long by 35 ft. in width, and 1 ft. in 

 height where it joins the east end of the northern limb, but attains 

 a height of 3J ft. and a width of 45 ft. at its other extremity. On 

 the south side of the northern limb, and at its eastern end, was a 

 good deal of broken * Anglo-Saxon ' pottery, lying at various 

 depths, some of it almost as low as the natural surface. It was not, 

 however, found beyond the part specified, and it is not improbable 

 that an existing mound had been used as a burial-place by the 

 Anglian people of the neighbourhood, and that their interments, 

 being near the surface, had been entirely ploughed away. At the 

 same time it must be remarked that this explanation does not 

 fully account for the occurrence of these potsherds at the level 

 where some of them were met with. 



In order to make the structure of the mound and the position 

 of its contents intelligible, a point of measurement was taken from 

 the centre of an imaginary circular mound at the east end of the 

 north limb, making it 75 ft. in diameter, which was the width of the 

 mound itself at this part ; and to this central point all the measure- 

 ments quoted in the following account refer. 



Before describing the interments which were met with in the 

 mound, I will first proceed to give an account of several holes, 

 of different sizes, which occurred at various parts of the barrow. 

 Some were of much the same nature as those so frequently dis- 

 covered in the ordinary round barrows on the wolds ; the same 

 enigmatical excavations have also been found in some of the long 



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