220 YOUKSHlllE. EAST RIDIXG. 



dispersed, at various places in the mound, twelve round scrapers ; 

 two drills, one [fig-. 23] a long- and narrow one; a cube of flint, 

 If in. square [fig-. 26], which has one face partly 

 ground smooth, having- probably been used as 

 a polisher ; a piece of oolitic sandstone, show- 

 ing sig-ns of use in rubbing- or grinding ; an oval 

 water-rolled quartzite pebble, worn at the ends 

 by hammering or pounding- ; together with several 

 burnt and broken stones having a smoothened 

 surface, and which I have met with in the same 

 condition in other barrows. A curious stone, flat 

 and not unlike a shoemaker's lapstone, was also 

 found; it has been very much used in rubbing 

 '^' ■ ^' down what can scarcely have been anything harder 

 than hide ; the whole of its surface, on both the faces and the 

 sides, is worn into shallow hollows and is perfectly smooth ; it 

 is 8| in. long, 3 in. wide, and about 1 in. thick. On the south 

 side of the barrow and about 8 in. below the surface of the mound, 

 a large bronze rivet, ^ in. long, was met with, which had most 

 probably belonged to a fine bronze fluted dagger, the middle 

 portion of which, 3| in. long, was found at the same depth near 

 the centre of the mound. Large numbers of bones, belonging to 

 twelve oxen and three horses, and innumerable sherds of pottery, 

 principally of plain, dark-coloured ware, occurred throughout the 

 entire barrow. Amongst these are many pieces of two vessels, 

 which may have been complete when first deposited in the barrow; 

 they are plain and dark- coloured, with a recurved lip, like that 

 of fig. 91, and they may very possibly have been of the same 

 shape. There were also found several fragments of at least two 

 ' drinking cups,' and a single sherd of what appears, from the 

 pattern upon it, to have been a cinerary urn. 



The number of interments discovered in this barrow was, as will 

 have been observed, a large one, and the disturbed condition of 

 nearly all of the bodies was very remarkable. It is difficult to 

 understand how the insertion of any body or bodies could have 

 caused the disturbance which was apparent, for the whole of the 

 skeletons had most certainly been moved and replaced. There seemed 

 to be no reason for supposing that these evidences of disturbance 

 had originated in any opening made, whether from curiosity or 

 other motives, in modern times : indeed the whole barrow pre- 

 sented unmistakeable testimony that many centuries must have 



