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chral, one of which I examined. It was 99 ft. long, 15 ft. wide, 

 and 2 ft. hig-h, and had a trench 3 ft. wide round it. It was placed 

 in a direction north-north-west by south-south-east. Though 

 evidently artificial, nothing whatever was found in it. In several 

 parts of Westmoreland there exist groups of similarly-shaped 

 mounds,, there called Giants' Graves, but those I have seen are 

 much smaller than these on Grimston Moor. Many of those 

 in Westmoreland have been examined by myself and others, but 

 in no case that I am aware of has anything whatever been dis- 

 covered in them. 



CXXXII. The first of the six barrows I opened was 47 ft. in 

 diameter, 4 ft. high, and was formed, like all the rest, of sand. 

 A circle of stones resting on the surface of the ground and 

 standing apart from each other, 37 ft. in diameter, encompassed 

 the mound, but was placed within and partly covered by it. Six 

 feet south of the centre, and immediately beneath the surface 

 of the bai'row, was a cinerary urn very much decayed. It was 

 placed upright, and was filled with burnt bones so much calcined 

 as almost to be reduced to powder ; amongst them was deposited 

 a flake of flint calcined. Seven feet south-east of the centre, and 

 like the last close below the surface, was a second cinerary urn, 

 in the same decayed condition as the other. It too was filled 

 with burnt bones, and amongst them was a calcined round scraper 

 of flint. No interment, either at the centre or anywhere on or 

 beneath the natural surface, was met with. The urns, in con- 

 sequence of their nearness to the surface of the barrow, were 

 too much disintegrated to permit of their size being ascertained. 

 They were however of the usual character of cinerary urns, having 

 an overhanging rim ornamented with the common impressions 

 of twisted-thong. Several chippings of flint, both burnt and un- 

 burnt, were found amongst the material of the mound. 



CXXXIII. The second barrow was 70 ft. in diameter and 

 4|^ ft. high. It was formed difierently from the ordinary bowl- 

 shaped mounds, being quite flat on the top, where it had a dia- 

 meter of 24 ft. It had been so constructed in the first instance, 

 for the moor had never been under the plough, and there were no 

 signs whatever of the barrow having ever been interfered with 

 since its erection. Eighteen feet south-east of the centre and 

 l^^ft. below the surface of the mound was a vessel of potteiy 



