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and of a peculiar kind, seems to be that which best fits in with the 

 circumstances of the case ; it being- possible that the bodies had 

 been first buried at some other spot before they were deposited 

 in this their last resting-place. Under such a condition of things it 

 might very easily happen that all the bones were not brought from 

 the place where they had been first deposited, or they might have 

 been there exposed, without any covering of earth or stone, and 

 therefore subject to. various actions and casualties, by means of 

 which some portion of the bones would be likely to be destroyed. 

 Nor does the finding at one time of some complete skeletons, and at 

 another time nothing but incomplete ones, present any difficulty, for 

 such different conditions might readily occur, and from more than 

 one cause. In some cases it might be that certain bodies were 

 taken in the first instance to what was to be the final place of 

 burial, whilst other bodies were removed from a previous place of 

 deposit, and in this way it might happen that there would be 

 perfect and imperfect skeletons discovered in juxtaposition. In 

 other cases, where all the bodies had been removed, some might 

 have remained complete, whilst others had lost, by one accident or 

 another, some of their component parts. The custom of twice 

 burying the dead has prevailed in so many different countries, and 

 at times so widely divided, that we need not reject this explanation 

 on the ground of its being contrary to usage. 



PARISH OF MARKET WEIGHTON, EAST RIDING. Ord. Map. xciv. s.w. 



CCXXVI. This barrow was examined by Professor Rolleston, to 

 whose notes I am indebted for the details given in the present 

 account. I had myself however frequent opportunities of seeing 

 the operations during their progress. 



The barrow was placed on the slope of the hill which rises 

 towards the east from flat land which at one time has been a 

 morass, representing an earlier lake or other sheet of water, and 

 wherein, at Bielbecks and other places, numerous animal remains, 

 constituting parts of an ancient fauna which included the mam- 

 moth, have been abundantly discovered. The mound had a 

 direction nearly due east and west, and was 110ft. long, 75ft. 

 wide at the east and 62 ft. at the west end, and varied in height 

 from 1ft. Sin. to 2ft. 2 in., having been very much ploughed 

 down. At the east end it was formed of a deposit of chalk-rubble 

 down the mesial line of the barrow, varying from 2| ft. to 5 ft. in 



