272 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



a strongly-made man in the middle period of life, whose head, 

 a typically braehy-cephalic one, was to S., but my informant 

 could not remember on which side the body was laid ; at the 

 head was a 'food vessel/ which, from the fragments that have 

 been preserved, must have been a rudely-made one with unusually 

 thick walls. 



LXX. The next barrow, which was about a quarter of a mile to 

 the south of the last, was placed upon the steep slope of a valley 

 which runs up from the village of Forden, and upon a piece of 

 ground which had never been under the plough. It was therefore 

 of its original size, though an attempt had been made to open it, 

 which had not however interfered with many of the numerous 

 interments it was found to contain. It was 28 ft. in diameter, 

 3| ft. high, and made «f chalk and earth. Thirteen feet south 

 of the centre, and upon the surface-level, was a small sepulchral 

 vessel, which had no doubt been associated with an interment, 

 most probably that of a child, whose bones had however gone 

 entirely to decay. The vessel, roughly in shape like fig. 69, is 4 in. 

 high, 5 in. wide at the mouth, and 2| in. at the bottom, and is 

 perfectly plain, except on the inside of the rim, where are some 

 lines rudely and irregularly made. At a distance of Sh ft. south- 

 south-west of the centre, and at the same level as the vase just 

 mentioned, were the much decayed remains of the bones of a child 

 under a year old, with which was associated a ' food vessel,' so 

 much broken and disintegrated that nothing more can be said 

 of it than that it had been small and ornamented on the upper 

 part with encircling lines of the usual thong-impressions. At a 

 higher level than the last, being 1^ ft. above the surface of the 

 ground, and 9 ft. south-south-east of the centre, was the body of 

 another very young child, in the same decayed condition as that 

 of the last one ; with this interment also was a ' food vessel.' It is 

 rudely made, in form approaching to fig. 69, 3| in. high, 4|- in. 

 wide at the mouth, and 2f in. at the bottom ; the upper part has 

 two encircling zigzag lines, and below these the vessel is covered 

 with parallel lines, arranged vertically, all being made by thong- 

 impressions. At the same distance from the centre as the last 

 interment, but in a direction south-east-by-south, and laid on the 

 surface-level, was the body of yet another child, with the head 

 to S.E. Upon the same level, and 5 ft. south-west-by-south of 

 the centre, was the body of a young woman from 18 to 20 years 



