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YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



to the light, saying that it should once more behold the sun ; but 

 the appearance of the grave, which seemed to be undisturbed, 

 scarcelv -ave warrant to the notion that, supposing the story to 

 be true, this had been the body so treated. I should rather be 

 inclined to think that in this case, as in others which have been 

 met with, the body had in the first instance been deposited at some 

 other place, and then brought, in a more or less perfect condition, 

 to its final burying-place. Amongst the material of the mound 

 were many flint ehippings ; five round scrapers, and one oval, left- 

 handed one ; a most symmetrically-formed and beautifully-flaked 



Fig. 106. i. 



willow-leaf-shaped arrow-point of flint, precisely like fig. 114, 2| in. 

 long and | in. wide ; the half of a spindle-whorl, of baked clay, 2 in. 

 in diameter ; some charcoal, several fragments of pottery, and many 

 broken bones belonging to four oxen and three goats or sheep, all 

 of them adults. 



In this barrow there were twelve unburnt bodies, half of which 

 were those of children, and probably one burnt one, in all thirteen ; 

 and so far as could be judged from the appearance of the mound, 

 there did not seem to have been any disturbance occasioned by 

 the insertion of secondary interments, all of these as it would appear 

 having been placed on the then existing surface of the barrow, to 

 which, as each new burial took place, fresh additions of earth were 

 made. At least this theory seems to account for the way in which 

 the mound may be supposed to have gradually grown to its present 



