250 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



amongst them. At the bottom of the grave, which was 5 ft. deep, 

 and on the east side of it, was the body of an adult of uncertain sex, 

 laid in a shallow dish-shaped hollow, lined with burnt matter and 

 charcoal. The body was placed on the left side, with the head to S.E., 

 the right hand up to the face and the left under the hips. Behind 

 the back, but beyond the limits of the hollow in which the body 

 was deposited, was a very beautifully formed and exceedingly thin 

 oval flint scraper. I scarcely think it had been deposited with the 

 body, but that it is rather to be regarded as one of those implements 

 which are casually found in barrows, and of which a very large 

 number had been scattered in this grave-mound ; it may however 

 have been originally associated with one of the bodies disturbed 

 in depositing the secondary interments. It is 2^ in. long, in shape 

 something like a spear-point, and has been carefully chipped all 

 round the edge. 



Sixteen feet east-by-north of the centre, measuring from centre to 

 centre, was a mound of chalk, 1 7 ft. in diameter and 3 ft. high, form- 

 ing a small barrow within the larger one. Under it, at the centre 

 and upon the natural surface, was the body of a woman, of about the 

 middle period of life, laid on the left side, the head to S. by E., the 

 right hand being under the head, the left in the direction of the head 

 but having the fingers pointing towards the elbow of the right arm. 

 The body was very slightly contracted, the back being perfectly 

 straight, and the knees, instead of being drawn up towards the 

 face, were turned in the opposite direction, as if the body, having 

 been laid upon the left side, had been held firm in that position, 

 whilst the legs were violently wrenched round until they were 

 brought into the position they would have occupied had tlie body 

 been laid upon the right side. The knees were about 8 in. higher 

 than the back. Twelve feet north-east of the centre, and still 

 under the smaller mound, and upon the surface-level, was the body 

 of another woman, of about the same age as the last, laid upon the 

 left side, with the head to N.W. ; the right hand was in front of 

 the knees, which, as in the former instance, were higher than the 

 rest of the body, the left hand being under the hips. About 1 ft. 

 north of the edge of the grave before described was a hole, ex- 

 cavated in the chalk, 6 ft. in diameter and 5 ft. deep. It was filled 

 in with chalk rubble, and contained nothing beyond the fiUing-in, 

 except two flint chippings and a large quantity of charcoal. Twenty- 

 three feet south of the centre were some fragments of a cinerary 

 urn ; and 18 ft. south-south-west of the same point were some 



