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which are continued over the ears. Below the shoulder are three 

 bands similar to those on the inside of the lip but made with 

 finer thong, and then come six bands of horse-shoe-shaped marks, 

 the lines of each band sloping* alternately in the contrary direc- 

 tion and forming a kind of herring-bone pattern. Below this the 

 vase is j^lain for a space of 1^ in., and then at the bottom is a 

 band of horse-shoe -shaped marks placed upright. 



It will have been remarked that in this group with one excep- 

 tion, namely the empty cist in the fourth barrow, the interments 

 were all of burnt bodies ; and the same will be found to be the 

 rule in the barrows upon the range of hills further to the south, 

 near Castle Howard. It would therefore appear that burning the 

 body was the custom which prevailed with the people whose burial- 

 mounds occur upon the high land which lies between the plain 

 of York and the valley of the Rye ; although from an account 

 of the opening of some mounds near Newburgh, a few miles to 

 the north of Grimston Moor, which is given in Gill's 'Vallis Ebora- 

 censis,' it would seem that the body had been interred unburnt 

 in the majority of instances at that place. The question of the 

 contemporaneous use of the two modes of burial has been discussed 

 in the Introduction, and it is sufficient here to note the fact of the 

 occasional deposit of burnt and unburnt bodies in close proximity. 



Parish of Slingsby. Ord. Map. xcvi. s.e. 



Another group of barrows, to which reference has just been 

 made, is situated upon Hall and Slingsby Moors, near Castle 

 Howard, about four miles east of the group last described. The 

 usual practice of placing the mounds containing these ancient inter- 

 ments upon high ground has been broken through in this case, 

 for the barrows about to be noticed are found in a small valley, 

 formed by a tributary of the Derwent which runs from north 

 to south through the oolitic range of high land lying to the 

 east of the plain of York. The barrows with one exception were 

 not upon the lowest ground in the valley, but on the slope of 

 the hill-sides which skirt it ; in no case however were they upon 

 the ridge or even high up the side of the flanking hills. 



CXXXVIII. The first barrow was 56 ft. in diameter, 5 ft. high, 

 and was made of mingled sand and clay very firmly compacted. 



