326 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



could be ascertained. At the head, but whether before or behind it 

 could not be determined, was a drinking cup [fig's. 89, 90] of rather 

 rude workmanship, but having the rare peculiarity of being 

 ornamented on the bottom. It is 5| in. high, 4i in. wide at the 

 mouth, and 2| in. at the bottom. The ornamentation, which will be 

 better understood from the engraving than from any description, 

 has been made by lines drawn with a pointed tool. Under this body, 

 which was placed at the centre of the mound, was a grave, lying 

 north-west-by-north and south-east-by-south, 6 ft. by 2f ft. and 

 2f ft. in depth. In it, on the bottom, was the body of a strongly- 

 made adult man, which had without doubt been placed there in 

 a fragmentary and disturbed condition; there was no skull, no 

 humerus or other bones of the arms, only one femur and one 

 tibia, together with the bones of the pelvis and several vertebrae, 

 but all mixed up together and out of place. It is very difficult 

 to account for the condition in which the bones were found, nor 

 does the overlying burial explain the appearances, for even had 

 that been a secondary interment and thus necessitating the re- 

 opening of the barrow in order to insert it, the depth at which it 

 was placed did not require the grave to be meddled with in order 

 so to deposit it. The only conjecture I can offer is that the 

 bones in the grave had belonged to a body buried at first 

 in some other place, and that, on the occasion of the burial of 

 the woman, who may have been related in some near way to 

 the man, his remains were removed to the spot where it was 

 purposed to bury her, and there re-interred previously to her 

 burial. 



CXVII. This barrow, like the last, was entirely covered over with 

 blocks of flint ; it was 19 ft. in diameter, l|^ft. high, and made of 

 chalk, with some flints and earth intermixed. At the centre, and 

 placed a little below the level of the natural surface, was a rude 

 sort of cist, formed of flint blocks and chalk, lying north-west 

 and south-east, 3 ft. by If ft. In it was the body of a woman 

 above 30 years of age, laid on the right side, with the head to 

 N.W. by W. ; the right hand was under the head, the left extended 

 out from and at a right angle to the chest. In front of the 

 neck was the tooth of a pig, perforated at the root-end where it was 

 also rubbed smooth, once doubtless the humble ornament of this 

 British woman. The occurrence of perforated animal teeth, though 

 they have not before been met with by me in any barrow which I 



