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the east end. The burials, which were discovered along the mesial 

 line of the barrow and towards the east end, had been placed on 

 the natural surface, but the turf appeared to have been pared off, 

 there being no layer of dark mould overlying the sandy soil, such 

 as would naturally have been found if the old surface had been left 

 intact. The mound was made of earth, but there were some stones 

 along the middle of the barrow over that part where the burial 

 deposits had been made. No signs of an interment, except a few 

 slight remains of what seemed to be very much decayed bone, were 

 met with until, at a distance of 15 ft. from the east end, the tibia 

 of an adult was discovered, 3 ft. west of which was part of a lower 

 jaw, both these bones being laid 6 in. above the surface. A flint 

 flake was found very near the bones, but not apparently associated 

 with them. At a distance of 21 ft. from the east end was a large 

 portion of the bones of probably a man, past middle life ; they were 

 not in their proper order, nor did it appear as if they had been 

 connected by flesh or ligaments, or had formed an entire skeleton, 

 when deposited in the mound. A flint flake and some stones were 

 found near to these bones. Close to these last, in fact immediately 

 to the west of them, were the similarly disjointed and imperfect 

 bones of a person about the time of puberty ; and almost in contact 

 with them were some bones, not many in number, of another person 

 of the same age. The last interment was found 23^ ft. from the 

 east end, and consisted of the bones of a young person, also dis- 

 jointed and fragmentary. 



Thus at least five bodies seem to have been buried in the barrow, 

 but none of them had been placed there in a complete condition, all 

 having the appearance as though they had been brought from some 

 previous place of deposit. This feature, a by no means infrequent 

 one in long barrows as well as in some round ones, has been so 

 fully commented on in other places that it is not necessary here to 

 make any further remarks upon it. 



PARISH OF CROSBY GARRETT, WESTMORELAND. Orel. Map. xcvu. N.W. 



CCXXVIII. Long barrows are of very rare occurrence in the 

 north-western parts of England, neither am I aware that they have 

 been found in the adjoining counties of Durham and Northumber- 

 land. A very large and in some respects remarkable one, called 

 Raiset Pike, situated in the parish of Crosby Garrett, Westmore- 

 land, was examined by Professor Rolleston and myself. It was placed 



