PARISH OK la'DSTON'E. 229 



Parish of Rudstone. Ord. Map. xciv. n.w, 



LXI. This barrow was situated still further towards the eastern 

 verge of the wold range, and about two miles to the south-east of 

 that last desci'ibed. It was near two long- barrows, the examination 

 of which is elsewhere recorded. It was a solitary one, and placed on 

 the slope of the hill towards the north. In diameter it was 66 ft., 

 in height 2 ft., and it consisted almost entirely of chalk-rubble. 

 At a distance of 16 ft. south-south-east from the centre, and laid 

 upon the natural surface, was a deposit of burnt earth, which 

 extended over a space of several feet towards the north-east ; 

 amongst it were flint chippings, a leaf-shaped flint arrow-point, 

 and a quantity of dark-coloured plain pottery of the same descrip- 

 tion as that found in other barrows. Twenty-one feet south-east 

 of the centre was an oval hole, running west-south-west by east- 

 north-east, 4 ft. by 2 ft. and 1^ ft. deep. On the surface of the 

 filling-in had been much burning : in the hole itself were flint 

 chippings, potsherds, and charcoal. Eight feet and a-half south- 

 south-west of the centre, and about a foot above the natural surface, 

 was the body of a child about 4 years of age, laid on the left 

 side, with the head to E. Eight feet and a-half south-east by east 

 from the centre, and about 10 in. above the natural surface, the 

 head being about 4 in. higher than the other parts, was the body 

 of a young man from 20 to 25 years of age, laid on the left side, 

 with the head to N.E., and the hands up to the face. Underneath 

 the right tibia were two much worn articles of inferior jet, or some 

 other kind of lignite, which had probably been used in fastening 

 the dress. One of them, which is |^ in. in diameter [fig. 118], is like 

 the ordinary buttons of the period, but pierced at the back from 

 the edge to near the centre, and not, as the buttons usually are, 

 with both piercings within the edge. The other is a ring^ [fig. 119], 

 1^ in. wide, and having a hole pierced through from back to front 



* Rings of a similar form, and even ornamented after the same fashion, have been 

 met with in Wiltshire and other parts of England. Sir R. Colt Hoare describes and 

 figures some in Ancient Wilts, vol. i. pp. 172, 289, pi. xiii, xix, xxxiv. Another found at 

 Winterbourn Monkton, in the same county, is figured in Crania Britannica, pi. 58. 

 It was associated with an unburnt male body, three jet buttons, a flint knife, an ovoid 

 stone with flattened ends, and two 'drinking cups.' One figured in Jewitt's Grave 

 Mounds, p. 126, fig. 176, was found in ^ barrow at Tissington, Derbyshire. A jet 

 ring, apparently of the same kind, associated with an urn, barbed arrow-points of fliut 

 and other articles, accompanied a skeleton discovered in 1761 at the Grove, near 

 Tring. Archseol., vol. viii. p. 429, pi. xxx. 



