280 TOEKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



on the wolds K The remains of the villag-e, in the shape of 

 foundations of houses and other enclosures, show that it had been of 

 considerable size. 



I opened seven of the group, finding that three of them had been 

 already dug into and the burials disturbed. The eighth also 

 presented some appearances of having been tampered with, and 

 was consequently left unexplored. 



LXXII. To commence with that which lay most to the east. 

 It was 49 ft. in diameter, 3^ ft. high, and made of earth and chalk. 

 At the centre, in an oval hollow, lying east and west, 4| ft. by 

 3| ft. and 1 ft. deep, was the body of a large and strongly-made 

 middle-aged man, laid upon the left side with the head to S.E. and 

 the hands up to the face. There was a good deal of burnt earth and 

 charcoal about the body. 



LXXIII. The second barrow, just west of the last, was 46 ft. in 

 diameter, 3 ft. high, and made of earth with a little chalk inter- 

 mixed. Three feet and a-half east-north-east from the centre, 

 and 2i ft. above the natural surface, was a cinerary urn reversed, 

 and containing the burnt bones of a very young child. It was too 

 much decayed to admit of the exact size being ascertained. The 

 ornamentation, which is confined to the overhanging rim, is of 

 a herring-bone pattern, and has been made with a sharp-pointed 

 tool. Three and a-half feet west-south-west of the centre, and at 

 the same level as the last, was another cinerary urn also reversed, 

 and filled with the burnt bones of a person of mature age. This 

 urn was likewise in the same decayed condition as the last, and 

 is ornamented upon and immediately below the overhano-inir rim 

 with a herring-bone pattern of twisted-thong impressions. Flint 

 blocks had been placed round the two urns, but the bottoms of both 

 had been destroyed by the plough. Between the urns, but 

 nearer to the more eastern one, was a circular hollow If ft. in 

 diameter and l^ft. deep, filled in with burnt earth and some 

 charcoal placed around a third cinerary urn also reversed, and 

 containing the burnt bones of a young person. This vessel, in 

 shape like fig. 61, and of good form and manufacture, is 11^ in. 



It IS difficult to say when these villages became deserted, but it is not unlikely 

 that it took place in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, when the 

 great impulse given to the trade in wool, through commercial intercourse with the 

 Low Countries, had caused a large proportion of the arable land to bo thrown into 

 ^hopp farms. 



