282 YORKSHIUE. EAST RIDING. 



It will be remarked that, contrary to the ordinary custom of 

 burial on the wolds, this g-rpup was found to contain, with one 

 exception, bodies which had been interred after having- been burnt. 

 In the seven barrows which were examined nine places of interment 

 were met with, and of these there was but one where an un- 

 burnt body had been buried. The same departure from the 

 prevailing- custom will ])e found in a section of a large group of 

 barrows to be presently described, where thirteen burials in five 

 barrows had all been after cremation. 



Parish of Etton. Ord. 31ap. xciv. s.w. 



About a mile to the north-east of the village of Etton there are 

 five small barrows lying a little apart from each other. Two of 



Tiff. 128. 



them had been opened many years ago with I know not what 

 result, the remaining three I examined. 



LXXVI. The first was 50 ft. in diameter, Hft. high, and made 

 of earth. It contained a single interment at the centre, that of an 

 adult woman. The body had been burnt on the spot, over a 

 hollow 3 ft. wide and 9 in. deep, in which the bones were found 

 deposited. At the west side of this hollow, with some charcoal 

 placed round it, was a small vessel of pottery [fig. 128], and 

 amongst the bones was a broad flint flake calcined. The site of 

 the funeral pile, which was very clearly defined by the reddened 

 earth, occupied a space of 7 ft. in diameter. In the barrow were 

 found the half of a long flint scraper and several flint chippings. 



