200 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



to the upper two inches of the vase, consists of three encircling 

 bands of short lines of thong-impressions placed vertically. The 

 inside of the lip has two encircling- bands of the same impression, 

 the lines being- arranged as chevrons set on edge. In the grave 

 was the head of a badger, and on the south-east side, at the edge 

 of the grave, a red-deer's antler. Intermixed in the material of 

 the mound, here and there, were flint chippings, potsherds, pieces 

 of charcoal, and some broken bones of two oxen, one a young 

 animal. 



XL VI. The barrow next in succession to this wsls placed 220 yds. 

 to the east of it, and was 70 ft. in diameter, 4 ft. high, and made 

 up of earth and chalk. Fifteen feet west-by-south of the centre, 

 and 1| ft. above the natural surface, was a vase, a perfectly plain 

 vessel ; directly below this, and upon the natural surface, was part 

 of a second vase, also quite plain and very much like the first in 

 respect of fabric and paste ; both these vessels being in such a de- 

 cayed condition that neither size nor shape could be made out. Nine 

 feet south-east of the centre, and upon the natural surface, was the 

 body of a young man, from 20 to 24 years of age, laid on the right 

 side, with the head to N.E., and the hands (the right clasping the 

 left) raised to the face, in front of which was a flint flake. Not 

 far from this body, at a point 9 ft. south of the centre, was a frag- 

 ment of a human skull, and with it a flint flake. Three feet east 

 of the plain vase first above mentioned, and at the same level with 

 it, was the body of a very young child, much decayed and affording 

 no certain evidence as to its position. Twelve feet south-west of 

 the centre there lay another child, at the same level (about 1^ ft. 

 above the natural surface), and in the same decayed condition. 

 Just to the south of the centre, and about 1^ ft. above the natural 

 surface, was the body of a woman, from 25 to 30 years of age, laid 

 upon the right side, the hands being up to the face. Touching the 

 back of the head was a water-rolled quartzite pebble, 2|- in. long 

 and 1| in. broad [fig. 15], which had been in much use as a 

 hammer or knappiug-stone, being worn down at both ends ; and 

 behind the neck was a long flint flake, chipped along one edge, and 

 showing most distinct signs of wear. Below this body and ex- 

 tending to the south of it, and 3 ft. south of the present centre, was 

 an oval grave, lying east and west, 6i ft. by 4| ft. and 2 ft. deep. 

 This grave had been sunk through a body, which had probably 

 been the primary and central interment, the lower parts of which 



