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INDEX. 



Skin or hide, body interred in, 31 n., 

 32, 32 n., 142, 411. 



Skull showing signs of a wound, 137. 



Skull-form, of people of early iron age, 

 129, 212; of people of long barrows, 

 122 w., 482, 543, 549; of people of 

 Wolds, 122; of Scandinavian chambered 

 barrows, 482. 



Skulls placed together without bodies, 

 206, 206 n. 



Slaves and others killed at funeral, 1 20, 



177. 243- 



Sleep, people buried as they lay during, 

 24. 



Slingsby, parish of, 347, 472. 



Slin^-stones, 35. 



Small mounds within barrows, 137, 137 n., 

 140, 247. 



Social state of people of Wolds, in, 118. 



Socketed celts, bronze, 49. 



Soden-Smith, Mr., 396 n. 



South Shields, parish of, 442, 478. 



Space, saving of, not the reason why body 

 was contracted, 22, 293. 



Spear-heads of bronze, not found in bar- 

 rows, 45 ; belong probably to an ad- 

 vanced period of the time of bronze, 

 49 ; of iron, 43 2 . 



Spindle- whorls, 116, 178, 196. 



Spinning, people of Wolds acquainted 

 with, 1 16. 



Spirits of the dead, fear of, 8, 10. 



Spoon of horn, found in a ' drinking cup/ 

 101. 



Stakes supporting a platform in barrow, 

 170. 



Stanley, Hon. W. Owen, 77 n., 81, 83. 



Steeple Hill, near Sunderland, 441. 



Stillingfleet, Eev. E. W., 50 n., 208, 454, 

 455 n. 



Stone, adzes, 34 ; hatchets, 34 ; imple- 

 ments, 34 ; implements still used in 

 bronze age, 361 ; pieces of, mixed with 

 clay of pottery, 64 ; rows (alignments), 

 402, 430 ; vessels containing burnt 

 bones, 73. 



Stone and bronze implements associated, 

 187, 225, 236, 265, 265 n., 359. 



Stonehenge, 6n., 18. 



Stones for polishing or grinding, 414, 416. 



Successive Interments Theory, 527, 546. 



Sun, bodies placed facing, 26. 



Sun-dried, urns not merely, 63. 



Surface soil removed under long barrow, 

 510,511. 



Suttee, 120. 



Swiss Lake Dwellings, people of, 114. 



Swords of bronze, belong, pi'obably, not to 

 the earliest time of bronze, 49 ; found 

 in Danish barrows, 44 n. ; not found 

 in British barrows, 44, 44 n. 



Swords of iron, 50 n. 



Symbolic representations connected with 

 burial, 343. 



Table of barrows, 458. 



Taboo, 8. 



Tait, Mr. Lawson, 342 n. 



Tate, Mr. George, F.G.S., 7 n. 



Tau symbol of Egypt, 8. 



Taylor, Colonel Meadows, 6 n., 120 n. 



Terraces for cultivation, 114, 374. 



Teutons not a fortifying people, 125. 



Three Tremblers (barrows), 357. 



Thurnam, Dr., F.S.A., 127, 485 n., 



508, 526 n., 542 n., 543 n., 544. 

 Thwing, parish of, 226, 464. 

 Tindall, Mr., of Bridlington, 143. 

 Tool-stone, oval, in barrow, 248. 

 Tooth of pig, perforated, 326. 

 Tosson, Great, parish of Rothbury, 431. 

 Toy weapons, &c., 361 n. 

 Traffic amongst people of Wolds, 56. 

 Tree-coffins, 13, 23, 32, 375, 376 n., 384. 

 Trench, along the sides of long barrows, 



488 ; circular, round base of barrows, 



6, 369; within barrows, 6, 166, 201, 



227, 245, 245 n. 

 Troy on, M. Fred., 23 n. 

 Tunstall Hill, near Sunderland, 440. 



Unburnt and burnt bodies, buried to- 

 gether, 149, 152, 153 n., 172, 240, 269, 

 329, 372, 391, 441; relative proportion 

 of, 19, 20, 21, 21 n. 



Uncleby, parish of Kirby Underdale, 



135- 



Upper Swell, parish of, 521. 

 Urn, burnt bones placed in, 14. 

 Urns of cinerary type not containing 



bones, 62, 72, 139, 161, 277, 284, 



287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 297, 318, 370, 



428. 

 Urns, smaller, placed inside larger ones, 



72, 364, 367, 405, 408 n., 428. 



Vase, Anglian, 178; diminutive, 317, 

 317 n. ; found apart from any inter- 

 ment, 193, 199, 219, 301, 302, 309, 

 345> 35 1 ; of great beauty, 307; with 

 cover, 89, 164, 164 n., 305 ; with feet, 

 88, 194 ; with rounded bottom, 143, 

 143 n. 



Vases, two made by same workman, 314. 



Vessels of pottery, how manufactured, 

 64 ; made for burial purposes, 103, 

 108 ; probably domestic, 143 n., 174. 



Villages on the Wolds now destroyed, 

 279. 



Vole, bones of, 199, 391. 



Wall surrounding long barrow, 513, 515, 



521. 

 Walls within barrows, 137, 139, 173, 284, 



485, 54> 5H, 52i. 

 Warcop, parish of, 385, 474. 

 Wass Moor, 339, 501. 

 Way, Mr. Albert, 77 ., 81, 83, 103, 



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