386 WESTMORELAND. 



bones. A single piece of flint — a mere chipping- — was all that showed 

 signs of man's handiwork amongst the material of the barrow. 



Parish of Asby. Orel. Map. cii. s.w. 



I opened a cairn at a place called Sail-bottom, not very far from 

 Great Asby, where there are many indications of early occupation, 

 and where some time previously to my visit the workmen getting 

 stones had found a skeleton, placed beneath a large stone under a 

 cairn. It was laid at full length, and had at the waist an iron 

 knife ; a fact from which it may be inferred that the interment was 

 that of an 'Anglo-Saxon.' 



CLXXII. The cairn opened by me was 34 ft. in diameter, 

 3 ft. high, and had a circle of stones round the base. At a distance 

 of 5 ft. east-south-east of the centre, and laid just above the natural 

 surface, were several bones of two bodies, placed in the cairn 

 without any order ; a circumstance which may be accounted for 

 either by the supposition that the barrow had been rifled at some 

 previous time, or more probably on the ground of disturbance 

 occasioned by the introduction of the remains of the burnt body of 

 an adult which were discovered at the centre. This burnt body 

 was deposited in an oval hollow lying north-east and south-west, 

 1 ft. 9 in. by 1 ft. 4 in., and sunk 6 in. below the natural surface. 

 In the substance of the cairn, which was raised upon a natural 

 mound of gravel, were some few bones of an ox. 



Parish of Crosby Garrett. Ord. Mcq). xcvii. k.w. 



This parish, a considerable part of which consists of high-lying 

 grass fells on the limestone, has produced a large number of inter- 

 ments which may be referred to an early date. They may be 

 classed as belonging to pre-Roman, ' Late Keltic ' possibly of the 

 period of the early Roman occupation, and Anglian times. The 

 ' Late Keltic ' burials were discovered in the year 1873, in a cutting 

 close to the village of Crosby Garrett, on the Settle and Carlisle 

 branch of the Midland Railway. They consisted of three unburnt 

 bodies, interred in the contracted position on their sides, about 

 three feet below the surface of the ground, there being no apparent 

 mound at the place. Upon the right arm of one of the bodies was 

 a bronze penannular armlet, oval in section, and unornamented 



