142 YORKSHIUE. EAST EIDING. 



south-west, 83 ft. long, 67 ft. wide, and 2^ ft. high. It was formed 

 principally of earth, but with some admixture of chalk, especially 

 at the south end. The mound contained a single burial, deposited 

 in a grave at the centre. This grave was oval, running east and 

 west, 8 ft. by 4| ft., and 3 ft. deep. It was filled in with chalk. 

 On the bottom at the east end was the body of a man in the middle 

 period of life, laid upon the left side, with the head to E.S.E., the 

 right hand across the chest, the left up to the chin. In front of 

 the face was a ' food vessel,' still containing some dark-coloured 

 matter, the remains, there can be no doubt, of what had been 

 placed in it at the time of burial. Below the body, and extending 

 beyond it on either side for a short space, was a thin seam of a dark 

 substance, having very much the a].pearance of decayed leather. 

 This was probably all that was left of what had been the buried 

 man's dress ; who if not interred in his garment of skin, may have 

 been first wrapped in a hide, of which this was the remains \ The 

 ' food vessel ' [fig. 70] is 4f in. high, 6 in. wide at the mouth, and 

 2| in. at the bottom, and has nine perforated ears at the shoulder. 

 It is covered, for a space of 3| in. from the top, with short lines in 

 bands encircling the vessel, and arranged herring-bone wise. The 

 ears have similar lines upon them, but arranged vertically, and the 

 inside of the rim is ornamented in the same way as the body of the 

 vessel ; at the bottom a row of short vertical lines encompasses it. 

 The lines have been made by a sharp-pointed tool drawn on the 

 moist clay towards the workman. Sixteen feet west of the centre, 

 and l^^ft. above the natural surface, was found the bottom and 

 some other portions of a vessel of pottery, but there was no ap- 

 pearance of a body having ever been buried at the place. Through- 

 out the whole of the mound, and upon the natural surface also, 

 were pieces of charcoal ; and here and there, in the material of the 

 barrow, were chippings of flint. There were also met with a few 

 broken animal bones ^ some potsherds, about the half of a round 

 jet bead, | in. in diameter, having the perforation drilled from 

 each side, several flint scrapers, and two saws, one of them most 

 regularly and delicately serrated, and showing in the glazing upon 

 the teeth that it had been long in use. 



VI. About a quarter of a mile east of the barrow just noticed was 



The occun-ence of leather or hide with ancient interments is not unfrequent. 

 Some instances will be found recorded in the Introduction, pp. 31, 32. 



The bones are of ox {bos longifrons), and of pig {sus scrofa domesticus). 



