286 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING, 



a child, a little under three years old, laid on the left side, with the 

 head to N.N.W. Close to the hips was a round urinary calculus of 

 the ordinary chamcter, about the size of a large pea. Near to the 

 front of the neck was a bone pin, very much decayed. 



Parish of Goodmanham. Ord. Map. xciv. s.w. 



We arrive now at a very larg-e group of barrows situated upon 

 Goodmanham Wold, and lying to the north of that last described. 

 There are still above forty, and it is known that some have been 

 entirely removed for agricultural purposes, no trace of them being 

 now left at the sites on which they were once placed. A few 

 of those remaining were opened by the late Lord Londesborough 

 and others, a record of which will be found in vol. xxxiv. of the 

 Archseologia, p. 256. 



The whole district is replete with archaeological interest. Lines 

 of entrenchments abound, showing, in connection with the numerous 

 sepulchral mounds, that the country was largely settled in pre- 

 historic times. In the immediate vicinity, at Arras and Hessle- 

 skew, were discovered in 1815 and the two following years the 

 lai'gest number of burials belonging to the Early Iron Age which 

 has been met with in England. The remains of chariots, 

 beautifully ornamented fibulse and armlets, with other articles 

 (testifying to the artistic feeling and manufacturing skill of those 

 people), give evidence of a population which had attained to a 

 degree of cultivation that it has not been usual to attribute to the 

 inhabitants of Britain before the Roman occupation. Of the time 

 when this country was a province of the Roman Empire not many 

 remains have been discovered in the district in question, but 

 cemeteries of hurnt and unburnt bodies, the former enclosed in 

 ■characteristic urns, and isolated burials, where numerous ornaments 

 •and articles of personal use have been abundantly met with, show 

 that it was largely occupied by an early Anglian population. It 

 did not indeed require the aid of archaeological research to prove 

 this, for historical records tell us that Goodmanham was one of the 

 principal sacred places of pagan Northumbria ; and in connection 

 with the missionary Paulinus, it was the spot with which one of 

 the most j^icturesque and interesting stories detailed by Bada is 

 connected \ 



' Eccl. Hist., lib. ii, cap. .\ii, xiii. 



