168 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDIXG. 



hollow to a distance of 7 ft. west of it, having a width of about 

 2 ft., and amongst it were many fragments of plain, dark-coloured 

 pottery, flint chippings, and animal bones, some of which were 

 charred. There were also several pieces of sandstone which had 

 been burnt, and had splintered during the burning, reminding me 

 of what I have observed in other barrows, as at Cowlam [No. Ivii] 

 and Rudstone [No. Ixi] ; wherein, moreover, plain, dark-coloured 

 pottery, like that under notice, also occurred. These burnt and 

 splintered fragments seem to have been portions of stones which 

 might have been used for rubbing or grinding, as they show signs 

 of use on their smoothened surface. 



Thirteen feet east-south-east from the centre was the body of a 

 young person, probably a female, laid upon the natural surface, on 

 the right side, with the head to S., the right hand up to the face, the 

 left to the knees. In front of the face was a ' food vessel.' It is 

 rudely formed, shaped somewhat like fig. 69, 4^ in. high, 5^ in. wide 

 at the mouth, and 2f in. at the bottom. It is entirely covered with 

 twisted-thong impressions, very irregularly placed, more or less 

 vertically, except at the upper part of the vase and on the inside of 

 the rim, where they encompass it in lines, three on the outside and 

 two on the inside. About the head and upper parts of the body 

 were large flint stones, and the whole of the lower part of the body 

 was covered over with similar blocks. Near the body were some 

 charred animal bones ; and 2 ft. west of the head were the horn- 

 cores and frontal bone of an adult ox^ (bos longifrons). At a 

 point 6 ft. south-east of the centre there was a spot, 2\ ft. in 

 diameter, where the natural surface of the ground was much 

 reddened by the action of fire. Throughout the whole mound was 

 found a quantity of black, apparently burnt, matter, similar to that 

 recorded as occurring beneath the first body, and in it many flint 

 chippings, potsherds, and animal bones ^ At a distance of 5 ft. 

 south of the centre, parts of the thigh bones of a young person 

 were found : these were not in position, and as no burial was dis- 

 covered at the centre, it is possible that the central interment may 



* Mr. Bateman records the finding of the head, or of part of the head, of an ox in 

 three barrows in Derbyshire. Vestiges, p. 82; Ten Years' Diggings, pp. 126, 129. 

 Sir R. Colt Hoare found in a ban-ow near Amesbury the skeletons of two children, 

 each laid on the head of an ox. Ancient Wilts, vol. i. p. 199. 



^ The animal bones found here and in the hollow below the body are those of oxen 

 {hos longifrons), goat or sheep, and pig {sus scrofa domesticus). All of those which 

 would contain marrow have been, as indeed is almost always the case with the bones 

 foimd in the wold barrows, designedly split open. 



