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bottom of tlie grave appeared to have been lined with wood, the 

 remains of which, in the shape of a dark- coloured layer, covered the 

 chalk floor. Some lumps of a yellow substance, which proved on 

 analysis to be ochre, were met with on the bottom of the grave and 

 close to the body. 



Parish of Londesborough. Orel. Map. xciv. s.w. 



CXXII. About one mile and a-half to the north of the larg-e 

 group of barrows upon Goodmanham Wold, just before described, 

 there had originally been three sepulchral mounds. Two of them 

 had been removed about thirty years ago, but the site of both was 

 still apparent ; the third remained, as it has been for many years 

 past, untouched even by the plough, being situated in an old grass- 

 pasture. It was 45 ft. in diameter, 2^ ft. high, and was made of 

 earth with a little chalk. Six feet south of the centre some 

 disturbed human bones of a person below 20 years of age, and 

 amongst them part of a skull, were found 9 in. above the natural 

 surface. At the centre was a grave, lying south-east and north- 

 west, 5i ft. long, 3f ft. wide, and 2| ft. deep. On the bottom, at 

 the middle, was the body of a child from 12 to 14 years of age, laid 

 on the left side, the head being to S.E,, the right hand up to the 

 face, and the left extended down the side. In front of the face was 

 a ' food vessel.' It is in shape somewhat after the fashion of fig. 69, 

 and is very rudely made of coarse clay. It is 6|~ in. high, ^\ in. wide 

 at the mouth, and Z\ in. at the bottom. The inside of the lip has 

 two encircling lines of twisted-thong impressions, and above and 

 below the raised rib, which is \\ in. below the mouth, is a band of 

 short lines of thong-impressions sloping to the right. 



CXXIII. I succeeded in finding a grave in one of the removed 

 barrows (in the other I did not find one, but the site of the mound 

 was not well defined, and a grave may possibly still remain there). 

 A number of fragments of what has once been a well-made ' food 

 vessel ' were met with on the south side of the remains of the 

 barrow. It has been profusely ornamented with a herring-bone 

 pattern, made by bands of lines of twisted-thong impressions. 

 The grave had a direction south-by-east and north-by-west, 

 with an offset towards the west, not quite at the middle of that 

 side. The length was 12|- ft., the width 4 ft. 9 in. ; the size of 

 the offset, which commenced 6 ft. 8 in. from the south end of the 



