312 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



being filled in with earth and containing- a very large proportion of 

 burnt soil and charcoal. On the bottom of the grave, at the 

 middle, was the body of a large and old man, laid on the left 

 side, the head to S.E., the hands being up to the face; the back 

 was straight. The body was surrounded by large blocks of flint. 

 There was a great amount of exostosis upon the shaft of the left 

 tibia, agglutinating the fibula in the lower third of its length, 

 and forming another deposit of great size upon the inner side 

 of the foramen nutritivum, as well as smaller growths in the 

 interval between these points of the shaft. 



CII. This barrow was one of the larger of the group, being 

 82 ft. in diameter, and still, after having undergone the action 

 of the plough for many years, 6 ft. high ; it was composed entirely 

 of earth. No interment was met with except one at the centre, 

 and it is not an infrequent occurrence, as has been already noted, 

 to find the larger barrows by no means so prolific of burials as 

 the smaller ones. The central interment was that of a young 

 man, about 18 years of age, of considerable strength. The body 

 had been placed in a hollow made in the surface-soil 7- in. deep, 

 the length being 5 ft., and the width 1 ft. 10 in. ; the longer 

 diameter was west-north-west and east-south-east. It had been 

 lined with wood, upon which the body was laid on the right side, 

 with the head to W.N.W., and the hands up to the face, in front of 

 which was a flint knife very carefully flaked over the whole of the 

 convex surface. It is 2} in. long and f in. wide, and the butt-end 

 is chipped to a sharp edge. Behind the crown of the head, about 

 6 in. from it, and laid on the side, with its mouth towards the 

 head, was a 'food vessel,' which still contained some dark-coloured 

 matter, proved by analysis to be of vegetable origin, and most 

 probably the remains of food once deposited in it. The vase is so 

 like one found in the next barrow, about to be described, that the 

 one might almost pass for the other, the only difference between 

 them being that this has the ears perforated, and that the lowest 

 band, that one close to the bottom, is wanting, the vase being plain 

 at that part. It is 4 in. high, 5i in. wide at the mouth, and 2^ in. 

 at the bottom, which is similarly marked to that of the vessel found 

 in the next barrow. 



cm. This barrow, also a large one, was situated a little to the 

 west of the last; it was 80 ft. in diameter, 4ft. high, and made of- 



