288 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



deep. The urn itself is 6i in. hig-h, 4i in. wide at the mouth, 

 and Sfin. at the bottom. The pattern consists of lines ijlaeed 

 very irregularly, but apparently representing the triangular figure 

 described at p. 71, and is made by small punctured markings. 

 One foot west of this, with its bottom on a level with the top 

 of the last, was a second vessel, also placed uprigbt, and sur- 

 rounded with burnt earth and charcoal. This vessel is a miniature 

 cinerary urn, in shape like fig. 61. It is 4i in. high, 3|in. wide 

 at the mouth, and 2| in. at the bottom. The overhanging rim 

 is completely covered with encompassing lines of twisted-thong 

 impressions, placed very close together ; below the rim a zigzag 

 line 1 in. deep, of thong-impression, encircles the vessel. The 

 remains of the two burnt bodies, witu which the urns had been 

 deposited^ singularly scanty in quantity, were placed amongst the 

 burnt earth, and close to their respective vases. In the first case 

 the bones were those of a young person ; in the second, those of a 

 child. With the bones of the former was a piece of calcined flint. 

 There was no trace of an interment at the centre of the mound, and 

 the original surface of the ground had not been disturbed to make 

 a grave. Amongst the materials of the barrow were two flint 

 chippings and a well-formed long flint scrai^er. 



LXXXIV. The se<3ond barrow was 36 ft. in diameter, 2 ft. high, 

 and made of earth. Fifteen feet east-south-east of the centre was a 

 deposit of burnt bones, very few in number, laid upon the natural 

 surface, and covering a space of about one foot in diameter ; the 

 body had been burnt on the spot. Eleven feet south of tiie 

 centre, and at a level of one foot above the natural surface, was a 

 second burnt body, of which the remains, as in the case just 

 mentioned, were very scanty; this also had been burnt on the 

 spot. Four feet and a-half east of this was a third burnt body, 

 that of an adult, laid at the same level as the last-named, and 

 though the bones were in excess of those in the other cases, still 

 they were very few in number ; this body had also been burnt on 

 the spot. Nine feet south-east of the centre, and at the same level 

 as the last two bodies, was a vessel of pottery, laid upon its side 

 with the mouth to the east, and beneath it lay an ' incense cup.' 

 The vessel is somewhat like fig. 58, but not having so deep a rim, 

 4| in. high, 4i in. wide at the mouth, and 2^ in. at the bottom. 

 The rim, 1| in. deep, is ornamented with three bands of lines, 

 arranged vertically, and made by a sharp-pointed tool ; below them, 



