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north-west of the centre-point, where the unburnt skull of a man 

 of middle age was found, placed on the right side, there being 

 no lower jaw with the head. Several unburnt bones, not in any 

 order however, were close to the head. The skull is a very typical 

 long-headed one, with a cephalic index of 68. One foot further 

 west was the unburnt skull of an aged man, also laid on the right 

 side. With the head was a lower jaw, occupying its proper 

 position, but which did not belong to it ; the jaw really appertain- 

 ing to it being met with at a distance of 2 ft. south of the head ; 

 whilst about a foot to the west was the lower jaw belonging to the 

 skull first named. In front of the face were portions of another 

 unburnt skull, and about a foot to the south of it was part of a 

 burnt skull. The skull of the second man was very similar in form 

 to that of the first, the cephalic index being 70. Fourteen feet west- 

 south-west from the centre-point was the skull of a child about 

 ten years old, unburnt, the lower jaw of which was placed at the 

 back of the head. With the exception of the bones found close to 

 the first-named skull, no other bones were met with in connection 

 with any of the heads. 



A deposit of calcined bones of the ordinary kind, of the time of 

 the round barrows (when the body was usually burnt on some other 

 spot, and the bones then collected and placed in the ground), was 

 met with 3 ft. north-by-east of the centre-point, and 1 ft. above the 

 natural surface. They were placed in a round heap, 14 in. in 

 diameter. This was probably a secondary interment, and possibly 

 made long subsequent to the erection of the mound. About 1 ft. 

 south-by-west from this deposit, but on the natural surface, a few 

 unburnt and some imperfectly burnt bones were discovered. 



In the south limb of the barrow there was not the slightest 

 indication that any burial had ever taken place. 



PARISH OF KILBURN, NORTH RIDING. Ord. Map. xcvi. S.E. 



CCXXV. The barrow now about to be described (situated on the 

 hill above Wass), which, in the peculiar disposition of the human 

 remains found in it, presented very much the same features as the 

 long barrows of which an account has already been given, differed 

 from them however in two particulars. It was unlike them in 

 shape, being rather oval than long, about 60 ft. in length by 45 ft. 

 in width; the longer diameter running in a direction north and 

 south ; whilst the deposit of bones, instead of being found at the 



