490 LONG BAREOWS. 



aud a single fragment of a plain earthenware vessel. All these 

 objects lay below the place where the contracted body was buried ; 

 but they did not appear to have been deposited subsequently to the 

 first construction of the barrow. 



It will be observed that there is a great similarity between this 

 barrow and that at Scamridge, as to the way in which the original 

 interments appear to have been deposited. In both there were the 

 disjointed, scattered, and perhaps broken bones laid below, and 

 partly amongst, a line of stones running east and west through 

 the centre of the longer axis of the mound. We have also in both 

 cases evidence that fire had been applied at the east end to this linear 

 mass of stone with wood interspersed, so that the bones had been 

 scorched or burnt by the igniting of the limestone or chalk over- 

 lying them. In both cases the bones, as has been said, were 

 disjointed and displaced, and had probably been deprived of the 

 flesh before they were laid, in the one instance, on the natural 

 surface, in the other, on a layer of clay. It is not easy to under- 

 stand how the fire was applied to the overlying deposit of stone, 

 the more so when it is considered that this deposit itself was placed 

 within a large mass of incombustible matter. My opinion for some 

 time (in fact until I examined the barrow next to be described) was 

 that the deposit of stone which overlaid and enclosed the bones was 

 set on fire by wood placed partly beneath and partly upon it, and 

 that afterwards the general mass of the barrow was thrown upon 

 the ignited stone, by which process that part in contact with 

 the burning stone was to a certain extent altered by heat. I am 

 now inclined to think that a different process was adopted, the 

 manner of which will be presently explained. 



Paeish of Westow, East Riding. Ord. Map. xciii. n.e. 



At a distance of not quite a mile east of the village of Westow, 

 on the slope of the oolitic hill wiiieh bounds the valley of the 

 Derwent on the south, are two barrows, the one of oval, the other 

 of the ordinary round bowl-shaped, form. Not very far from the 

 site of these mounds was discovered, about thirty years ago, 

 a large hoard of bronze implements, consisting of socketed axes 

 (celts) of different types, gouges, and chisels. Many of them are 

 preserved in the York Museum, but a greater number were 

 dispersed. There was, probably, no connection between the people 

 buried in either of the two barrows and the owner of the bronze 



