302 YOEKSHIEE. EAST KIDING. 



that in No. xe, and in it, about the middle, was the body of 

 a young boy or g-irl, laid on the right side with the head to N.W., 

 the arms being too much gone to decay to allow their position 

 to be defined. In front of the hips w^as a small but well-chipped 

 flint knife. If in. long and f in. wide, flat on one face and convex 

 on the other. In this barrow we find inhumation alternating with 

 cremation, the primary interment of an unburnt body being overlaid 

 by a burnt one, and that again by a second unburnt body. What 

 lapse of time, if any, had taken place between these several burials 

 it is impossible to say. 



XCIII. This barrow was 66 ft. in diameter, 3i ft. high, and 

 made of earth. At a distance of 14 fi.. south-by-west from the 

 centre, and just below the surface of the barrow, was a vessel of 

 pottery, apparently a small cinerary urn, but in so decayed a 

 condition that nothing can be made out with certainty either as 

 regards its shape or size. Nine feet west-by-north of the centre, 

 and 3 ft. above the natural surface, was a cinerary urn reversed, 

 and containing the remains of a burnt body, that of an adult of 

 uncertain sex. It had been so much desti'oyed by the plough that 

 but little remained of it. The overhanging rim has been ornamented 

 with a very roughly-formed pattern of lines made by a pointed 

 tool, arranged herring-bone fashion, the inside of the lip of the 

 rim having two encompassing lines of twisted-thong impressions. 

 At the centre, and placed on the natural surface, was a cinerary urn 

 standing upright, and containing a very small quantity of burnt 

 bones. The urn, which has been ver}^ rudely made and imperfectly 

 fired, w'as in so rotten and disintegrated a state that nothing 

 beyond the fact that it had been a vessel of pottery of the 

 cinerary type could be ascertained concerning it. Amongst the 

 material of the barrow were found a fragment of the rim of 

 another cinerary urn, marked with a triangular-spaced pattern of 

 thong-impressions, and a long flint scraper. 



XCIV. The next barrow was 68 ft. in diameter, 4i ft. high, and 

 made of earth. Fifteen feet from the centre, and to the east of 

 it, one foot above the natural surface, was a ' food vessel,' without 

 any trace of an accompanying body. The vase, coarsely made, is 

 similar in shape to fig. 69, 5| in. high, the same in width at the 

 mouth, and 2| in. wide at the bottom. The inside of the lip has 

 upon it two encircling lines of loosely-twisted thong-impressions. 



