204 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



Parish of Langtoft. Ord. Map. xciv. n.w. 



XLVIII. The next barrow, which was situated a little to the 

 south-east of the last, though in a different parish, had been dug 

 into in recent times at the centre, but there were so many peculiar 

 features connected with it that I am reluctant to omit all mention 

 of its contents. It was 70 ft. in diameter, li ft. high, and made 

 of earth. Twelve feet east- south-east of the centre was a circular 

 hole, 2i ft. in diameter ; three feet east of it was a second, 3 ft. 

 in diameter ; and three feet east-south-east of it a third, also 2 ft. 

 in diameter. They were all sunk to a depth of 2 ft. below the 

 natural surface, and were filled in wiih chalk-rubble, amongst 

 which there was some charcoal. Over and round about these three 

 holes lay a great quantity of burnt earth and charcoal, together 

 with a few burnt bones. Eight feet south-south-east of the centre, 

 in a slight depression of the surface, were two bodies, with some 

 fragments of a 'drinking cup,' and a good deal of charcoal : these 

 no doubt had been the central burials. Both the bodies had been 

 disturbed, probably by £Ee persons who had dug into the barrow, 

 and who had left, in evidence of their work, half of a horse-shoe 

 and a piece of glazed pottery. One of the two bodies had been 

 that of a large man ; the other, of a young person about 16 years 

 old. Beneath these two disturbed bodies was a circular hole, 

 1 ft. 4 in. in diameter and 14 in. deep, filled in with burnt earth 

 and charcoal, amongst which were some human bones, unburnt. 

 Fifteen feet east of the centre, and 4 ft. north of the second of the 

 holes first above noticed, was a very much larger one, running in 

 a direction north-east and south-west, 7\ ft. long by 2 ft. wide, 

 and nearly 2 ft. deep. It was filled with chalk, burnt earth, and 

 charcoal, and there was one single fragment of a vase in it. Two 

 feet north-west of the disturbed bones were the leg and feet bones 

 of a body, which had been laid upon the left side, and with the 

 head to W. Close to the feet, on the north, were three thigh 

 bones and a leg bone laid in a sort of order, all probably displaced 

 from their original site by the opening above mentioned. Six feet 

 south- south-west of the centre was a sixth hole, tending north- 

 north-east by south-south-west, 4|^ ft. by 3| ft., and 3 ft. deep. It 

 was filled in, like the others, with chalk, burnt earth and charcoal, 

 and contained besides this the knee-cap of a young person. It will 

 be remarked that there were in this barrow more than the usual 



