140 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



2 ft. deep, filled with broken stones and rubble, with larger and flat 

 stones on the top. About 8 ft. within the external line of the 

 barrow, on its south-west side, were many traces of fire, such as 

 burnt earth and stones, and amongst them a portion of a human 

 skull also burnt. Throughout the whole barrow, but the least so 

 on the east side, the natural surface showed extensive signs 

 of burning. Some animal bones, and amongst them the tooth of an 

 ox {bos longifrons), were found in the barrow, and a single piece of 

 pottery, but no flint chippings. 



Parish oy Kirby Grindalyth. Orel. Map. xciv. n.w. 



III. Upon Duggleby Wold there was at one time a group of 

 three barrows lying very close together. Of these, one was 

 removed several years since, and of the two remaining I opened the 

 larger. This was 74 ft. in diameter and 6 ft. high. The upper 

 part consisted of layers of loamy earth, below which the material 

 employed was very stiff clay, with chalk and flints intermixed. 

 Twenty-five feet south of the centre was an oblong hollow, with 

 rounded ends, excavated in the chalk, 6 ft. by 4| ft. and 2\ ft. 

 deep, and having a direction south-west by north-east. Like 

 nearly all of these enigmatical holes, it contained nothing besides 

 the filling-in of earth and clay. Twelve feet south of the centre 

 there was another hole, 2 ft. in diameter and l-^ft. deep, containing, 

 like the larger one, nothing more than the filling-in. At the 

 centre was a flat-topped conical mound, composed of chalk rubble, 

 l|^ft. high, and 4 ft. in diameter at the top. Upon the flat summit 

 was a layer of charcoal, and upon it was deposited the body 

 apparently of a man, laid on the right side with the head to W., 

 but in such a decayed state that the position of the hands could not 

 be ascertained. At the hips were two flint flakes, and close to the 

 body were four flint chippings and three w^ater-worn quartz 

 pebbles. Beyond the head were four holes, made apparently by the 

 ends of stakes, similar to some found in a grave under a barrow on 

 Ganton Wold, and which are fully described in the sequel. These 

 now under notice were 10 in. deep, and varied from l^in. to 2 in. 

 in diameter. Three of them were angular and one round, and the 

 remains of the decayed wood in the holes were quite distinct. On 

 both the east and west sides of the central mound was a similar one 

 but without any layer of charcoal, and showing no signs of a body 

 having ever been placed upon either of them. Within the barrow 



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