240 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



end, was laid the body of an ag-ed man, on the left side, the head 

 being" to S., and with both the hands up to the face. Behind his 

 head, and in the south-east corner of the cist, was a ' drinking cup/ 

 standing upright ; and in front of the face an oblong- piece of iron- 

 stone, which had been subjected to the action of fire. A smaller 

 piece of the same kind of stone, also burnt, was placed outside the 

 end of each cist, as well as in the space spoken of above as inter- 

 vening- between them. In front of the feet of the man was the 

 body of a very young- child, and before the middle part of the leg- 

 was another and still younger child. The ' drinking cup,' similar 

 in shape and ornamentation to fig. 120, but narrower, is 7f in. 

 high, 5 in. wide at the mouth, and 3 in. at the bottom. The orna- 

 mentation, which covers the whole surface t'^ within one inch from 

 the bottom, is composed principally of series of encircling lines, 

 varied by bands of lines inclining in reversed directions, of bands 

 of lozenges and of plain bands ; the impressions being those 

 of a notched piece of bone or wood. In the centre of the 

 second cist was a deposit of burnt bones, laid in an oval heap, 19 in. 

 by 12 in. ; the principal part of the deposit consisted of the bones 

 of an adult male, with some few of another human body, and three 

 fragments from the interior of the frontal sinus of an ox. In the 

 south-east corner of the cist was placed a ' drinking cup,' standing 

 upright, which, like that in the first cist, contained some dark- 

 coloured matter, the remains, it is to be presumed, of whatever had 

 been originally deposited in them\ The ' drinking cup ' is 8| in. 

 high, 6i in. wide at the mouth, and 3| in. at the bottom [fig. 120]. 

 This fine specimen of the class of vessel to which it belongs is very 

 beautifully ornamented, the nature of which will best be under- 

 stood from the engraving ; as in the preceding vessel, the pattern 

 has all been made by the application of a notched piece of bone or 

 wood. On the east side of the grave and between it and the side 

 of the first cist, 4 in. above the bottom, was a second burnt body; 

 that of a strongly-made adult man ; and about 1 ft. to the south- 

 south-east of the deposit of bones was a ' drinking cup,' which is 

 in shape like fig. 120, but narrower though widening more at 

 the mouth, 7^ in. high, 5^ in. wide at the mouth, and 2| in. 



middle of the covering-slab we found an oblong water-rolled stone, natiu-ally shaped, 

 but which bears marks on both its ends of having been used as a hammer, and which 

 seemed to be the hammer with which the coffin was made.' 



This dark -coloured matter has been shown by analysis to contain a large quantity 

 of nitrogen, and is therefore probably of animal origin. 



