298 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



apparently been cut away. The hips of both bodies were in con- 

 tact, and the knees of the man were six inches north of the head 

 of the other body. It is difficult to account for the destruction 

 of portions of these two bodies in consequence of any disturbance 

 of the barrow ; the grave discovered a little to the north of the 

 present centre was not within the limits of the space which would 

 have been occupied by the bodies in question, nor was there any 

 appearance of the mound above them ha\ang ever been disturbed. 

 There can be no doubt, I think, that the bodies had in the first 

 instance been placed in the barrow in a complete state, for those 

 bones which were left must have had the flesh, or at least the 

 ligaments, upon them when they were buried, all the several bones 

 being in their natural order and juxtaposition, and the missing 

 parts in each corresponding with those which would have dis- 

 appeared from a cut being made through two bodies placed as 

 they had been. In other barrows it has not been of infrequent 

 occurrence to find skeletons which must have been removed from 

 their first place of burial and then re-interred where they were 

 met with, but in those cases the bones show by their w^ant of 

 proper order that such disturbance had taken place. No scattered 

 bones or portions of bones which might be supposed to belong to 

 these two bodies were found in any part of the mound. On the 

 whole, it is probable that the partial destruction of the bodies 

 in question was caused, in some way or other which was not ap- 

 parent, by the making of the grave discovered in their immediate 

 though not close vicinity. 



Four and a-half feet south-west-by-south of the centre, and on 

 the natural surface, was the body of a child about 7 years of age, 

 laid on the right side, with the head to E. by S., and having the 

 hands up to the face. Immediately south-south-west of the centre, 

 and placed in a hollow, 2 ft. in diameter and sunk 14 in. below the 

 surface of the original barrow, upon which it had been burnt (the 

 hollow having been first made), were the calcined remains of the 

 body of a young person about 18 years of age; and with the 

 human bones a single piece of the bone of a pig, also burnt. 

 Amongst the bones, towards the upper part of the deposit, was a 

 very beautiful axe-hammer of basalt [fig. 12], 4 in. long, and 

 having the hole for the handle drilled from each side. It had 

 passed through the fire with its owner, but had not suffered 

 beyond having its colour slightly changed in the process. The 

 pointed end of a bone pin was also found amongst the bones. 



