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in Yorkshire, having" the base slightly hollowed ; a form inviting 

 comparison with that which is so common, though more fully 

 developed, in many of the most beautifully shaped of the Irish 

 and Danish arrow-points. 



XVII. The fifth barrow was a little to the east of the last named, 

 and had been ploughed down after a very irregular manner, so as to 

 have become of an oval form, 90 ft. by 50 ft., and only 1 ft. high. It 

 was composed of earth, with a few chalk stones. Nine feet south- 

 east of the present centre part of a skull was met with, the remains 

 of a body which had been destroyed by the plough. Fifteen feet 

 east of the centre were portions of a vessel of pottery, which had 

 been deposited a little above the natural surface, and had been 

 broken and scattered by the plough. It had been a ' food vessel,' 

 of good shape and workmanship, and with pierced ears round the 

 shoulder. At the centre was a shallow grave, north-west by south- 

 east in direction, 6 ft. by 5 ft., and 6 in. deep. In it was a body, 

 laid on the right side, with the head to S.W. and the hands up to 

 the face. In the process of inserting this interment another adult 

 body had been in part disturbed, portions of it being still in siiuy 

 immediately to the east of the secondary interment. The original 

 occupant of the grave, an adult of uncertain sex, had also been placed 

 on the right side, the head being to S.W. ; a vase had been 

 deposited with the body, the greater part of which was found 

 broken and scattered, and lying underneath the head of the inserted 

 body. It is 6f in. high, a little more in width at the mouth, 

 and 3 in. at the bottom. The upper part is ornamented immediately 

 below the lip with a row of impressions, apparently made by the 

 end of a piece of bone or wood triangular in section, and there 

 is another similar row 2| in. below the first, the space between 

 being filled up by three bands of vertical lines of different 

 lengths, those of the upper rows being the shortest ; the inside 

 of the lip of the rim has a series of vertical lines running 

 round it. The lower part for a depth of 4^ in. is covered with an 

 irregular reticulated pattern. The whole of the ornamentation, 

 except that due to a triangular-ended tool, has been made with a 

 pointed instrument drawn over the clay when soft. Above the 

 grave was a number of large flint blocks. Immediately to the east 

 of the last-mentioned grave was another, very shallow and scarcely 

 to be defined. In it was the body of an adult, laid on the right 

 side, with the head to N.W., the right hand under the hip, the left 



