PARISH OF KILHAM, EAST RIDING, 



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knife ; the second (fig. 164), wider and thinner and not quite so 

 well worked, is more certainly a knife ; the third is a simple flake. 



Fig. 163. 



Fig. 164. 1. 



PARISH OF KILHAM, EAST RIDING. Orel. Map. xciv. N.W. 



CCXXXIV. On the farm of Dotterill Park there is a mound 

 which has all the outward appearance of an ordinary long barrow, 

 though its contents, as will be seen from the following account, 

 scarcely warrant its being so reckoned. I have however thought 

 it best to include it amongst the barrows of that class, though it 

 has nothing beyond its shape in common with those sepulchral 

 mounds, and though it belongs, there can be little doubt, to the 

 same period as the round barrows. 



It is 170ft. long, having a direction of N.E. by E. and S.W. 

 by W., and is 60 ft. wide at the north-east end, and 45 ft. at the 

 opposite one : though much reduced by ploughing, it is still 4 ft. 

 high at the wider end, and 3 ft. at the other extremity. The 

 measurements specified below are taken from the point of inter- 



