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of Bridlington, who from bis knowledge of clay, as a pipe-maker, 

 is competent to speak on the subject, tells me that there is a clay at 

 Speeton which produces a paste like this, and that he knows of no 

 other clay in the district which would make such a ware. I should 

 however be inclined to think that the clay had been obtained 

 nearer to the barrow than Speeton. At the south-west end of the 

 trench, and on its west side, was a sort of extension of it^ of an 

 apsidal form towards the west, 6 ft. long, 6 ft. wide, and 8 in. deep ; 

 this was filled with burnt earth and charcoal, which indeed rose 

 above the natural surface as high as the present surface of the 

 barrow, and was co-extensive with the hollow. There were no 

 potsherds in it, and, as in the case of the trench, the burning did 

 not appear to have taken place on the spot. On the south side of 

 the hollow lay a log of partially burnt oak wood, 3 ft. long and 

 Sin. square. Another hole occurred 16ft. east-by-south from the 

 centre. It was oval, 2 ft. long from north to south by 1 ft. broad, 

 and If ft. deep. The filling-in was burnt earth, having amongst it a 

 very few burnt bones, apparently animal. At a point 12 ft. north- 

 west of the centre, and 1^ ft. above the surface, there was a large 

 quantity of pieces of dark-coloured plain pottery, the remains of 

 several vessels, all of them probably domestic. Fifteen feet west-by- 

 north of the centre, and a little above the natural surface, lay a 

 ' drinking cup,' much broken by the pressure of the earth and 

 badly decayed. There was nothing to suggest that a body had 

 ever been buried at the spot ; as from the nature of the soil it 

 might have been expected that some at least of the bones would 

 have been found if ever a body had been laid there. It is of course 

 possible that the vase may have been placed in the mound in 

 connection with the central and sole interment found in it, though 

 the occurrence is very unusual. I have however met wath other 

 instances in which a vessel has been placed in the barrow apart 

 from a body, as in one on Gauton Wold and in another at Cowlam. 

 At the centre was the body of a young person, laid on the left side, 

 the head to W. by N. The bones were very much decayed. The 

 body had been placed on the level of the natural surface, but the 

 chalk had been removed below it to a depth of 1| ft., the hollow 

 thus produced having been filled in with stiff clayey soil. In the 

 barrow were several chippings, and a knife-shaped implement of flint 

 with a curved edge, carefully chipped along both back and front. 



them, like this in question, have been round-bottomed ; the lip also is generally, like 

 that in the figure^ roll-shaped, slightly curving over. 



