500 LONG BARROWS. 



were met with. At the east end, where the calcination was 

 complete, the burnt bones were mixed up with the burnt earth 

 in the same way, though not enclosed in the same hard mass, as in 

 the long barrow on Willerby Wold. This would arise from the 

 different nature of the material composing 1 the deposit, which 

 consisted principally of turf, with a little chalk and no flint, the 

 latter being a substance which does not occur in the chalk of 

 the district. As the deposit was examined progressively towards 

 the west, and the burnt matter became gradually less in quantity 

 and at last entirely ceased, the bones still continued to be calcined, 

 until, at a distance of about 30 ft. from the east end of the deposit, 

 some bones quite unburnt were met with, though others were still 

 calcined ; while, still further to the west, the bones were all, with a 

 very. few exceptions, untouched by the fire. The occurrence of 

 some few burnt bones laid close by the larger number of unburnt 

 ones, and where the overlying material was not affected by fire, is a 

 circumstance in which this barrow differs from that at Scamridge, 

 where no burnt bones were found after the enclosing and covering 

 deposit had ceased to manifest any signs of burning. It would 

 seem then almost necessary to conclude that in the barrow now 

 under notice, when the bodies were placed on the surface, to be 

 covered over by the turfs and chalk and then to be burnt along 

 with this deposit, that some bones previously calcined had been laid 

 there with them. 



I now proceed to note particularly the position in which the 

 various remains of burnt and unburnt bodies were found, and the 

 very extraordinary way in which some of the latter were deposited. 

 Here I may premise that the bones were most numerous at the two 

 ends of the deposit, very few having been found for a space of about 

 10 ft. in the middle. Eighteen feet east-south-east of the centre- 

 point before fixed upon as a basis of measurement, and just upon 

 the edge of the large hole before described, was a body (or, more 

 probably, only part of one) imperfectly burnt, though all the bones 

 were to some extent calcined. A little to the west of this was 

 a skull, perfectly burnt, and apparently having all the bones of the 

 head present. Four feet west of this was another skull, having the 

 finger bones and those of the back, belonging probably to the same 

 body, in their proper position. All the bones were completely 

 calcined. No more bones were met with until at a place 2^ ft. east- 

 south-east of the centre-point a few burnt bones occurred. There 

 was, again, an absence of bones up to a distance of 10 ft. west- 



