348 YORKSHIRE. NORTH RIDING. 



The mound had been previously disturbed by a small opening 

 having- been made about the middle, which had resulted in the 

 discovery of the central interments. These — for there had prob- 

 ably been more than one body buried — consisted of burnt bones 

 which had been contained in, or associated with, four vessels of 

 pottery. The burials had originally been made at the centre 

 of the barrow, in a circular hollow 2 ft. in diameter and sunk 

 1ft. below the natural surface. At the bottom of this hollow 

 there still remained the lower part of a cinerary urn which had 

 not been removed by the first explorers, and immediately under 

 it was a round flint scraper unburnt [fig*. 139]. The disturbed 



bones together with several fragments 

 of the sepulchral vessels ^ had been re- 

 placed in a hole made just below the 

 surface of the barrow, a little south 

 of the centre ; amongst the burnt bones 

 were several pieces of calcined flint. 

 Above the central deposit, and im- 

 mediately beneath the surface of the 

 mound, several stones had been placed 

 ^ with some regularity of arrangement. 



Fifteen feet south-east-by-south of the 

 centre and 2 ft. below the surface of the barrow was a cinerary 

 urn, set upright and filled with the burnt bones of a small 

 person of full age, probably a woman ; amongst them was a flint 

 knife calcined, smaller but identical in shape with one found 



* Two of them have been large cinerary urns, the other two being smaller vessels. 

 The first of the large urns has been a very fi^ne one, with an overhanging rim 3^ in. 

 deep ornamented with five lines of short sharp-ended ovr\ impressions encircling the 

 urn, whilst the inside of the lip has upon it a similar line of impressions nearly 

 circular. Below the rim for a space of 3 in., as much as now remains, the urn has 

 lines of impressions similar to those on the rim. The other large urn has had an 

 overhanging rim ornamented with lines of thong-impressions, those on the only piece 

 which is left being horizontal ; the inside of the lip has had three if not more similar 

 lines round it. One of the smaller vessels has on the overhanging rim (which is 1^ in. 

 deep) two lines at the top and thi-ee at the bottom of impressions made with a very 

 delicate cord, the intermediate space being filled up with three bands of short lines 

 placed vertically and herring-bone fashion, each band being separated from the other 

 by a line similar to the encompassing one on the upper and lower parts of the rim. 

 The lip also has on the inside an encompassing line like those on the rim. A small 

 fragment, probably belonging to the same vessel, has a reticulated pattern of delicate 

 cord or twisted-thong impressions, and below this three encompassing lines of the 

 same impressions. The second of the smaller vessels has had its overhanging rim (which 

 is Ij in. deej)) ornamented with lines of very fine cord-impressions encompassing the 



