362 YORKSHIRE. NORTH RIDING. 



a distance of 14 ft. from the outer circumference, enclosed the 

 central portion of the barrow. At a distance of 19 ft. south of the 

 centre a cinerary urn was met with, in a reversed position, and 

 containing a deposit of burnt bones, those of a person above 

 20 years of age. It was placed not more than 1 ft. below the 

 surface of the mound, and in consequence the bottom of it had been 

 much injured by digging for rabbits. The urn, a large one, 

 approaching in form to fig. 56, is 16 in. high and 15| in. wide at 

 the mouth ; it is very well made and shows great skill in its 

 fabrication, especially when its size and the circumstance that it is 

 hand-made are taken into consideration. For a depth of 6 in. below 

 the rim it is ornamented with nine encompassing rows of im- 

 pressions made by a round-ended instrument applied obliquely 

 from below. The inside of the lip, which is 2 in. deep, has two 

 similar rows of impressions, but formed with an oblong-ended 

 instrument, the marks being each f in. long and ^ in. wide ; on 

 the edge of the lip, and also between the two rows on the inside, 

 is a band of short diagonal lines or strokes inclining to the right, 

 made with a sharp-pointed tool. On the south-east side of the 

 barrow, and just within the stone circle above-named, a triangular- 

 shaped pendant of inferior jet or some other lignite was met with, 

 laid under a flat stone placed on the natural surface. It is rather 

 roughly fashioned, and is 1^ in. long, 1 in. wide at the lower part, 

 and perforated near to the top. Not far from it, and lying 

 together, were two peculiarly-formed scrapers and a knife, 2^ in. 

 long and curved on one edge, all of flint ; it is possible that the 

 two implements I have called scrapers may have been knives, and 

 perhaps they are better adapted for cutting than for scraping. 



About a mile to the north of ' The Three Tremblers,' upon the 

 verge of the ground which slopes rapidly into Troutsdale, were 

 three barrows placed close together. 



CLIV. The first, 30 ft. in diameter and 4 ft. high, was entirely 

 made of small stones, and had a circle of much larger stones round 

 the base. The several interments it was found to contain were laid 

 upon a flooring of small pebble-stones resting on the natural 

 surface. Nine feet north-west of the centre was a deposit of burnt 

 bones, covering a space of about 15 in. in diameter. Six feet north- 

 by-east from the centre was a second deposit of burnt bones, rather 

 widely scattered over an area about 3 ft. in diameter. In each 



