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that usually found in quite another class of burial mound was 

 discovered. Does this fact show that, as a rule, the two classes 

 belong to the same period ? I do not think it would be safe to 

 come to such a conclusion upon a fact so isolated as the one in 

 question. It is indeed quite possible that this piece of pottery may 

 have had no connection with the first construction of the barrow, 

 but that it may have worked its way down, in one way or another, 

 to the place where it was met with, from a more superficial part of 

 the mound, where it may have been placed in association with an 

 interment made long- after the primary throwing- up of the barrow. 

 Without supposing that any extensive disturbance had taken place, 

 it is nevertheless by no means improbable that a badger, fox, 

 rabbit, or rat may have been the agent by which it was thus 

 transferred from one place in the mound to another, and this seems 

 to me by far the most probable explanation. At the same time, it 

 may be that this long barrow was constructed, during the time 

 when round-barrow burial was the customary one, by people 

 belonging to possibly an earlier stock, who had still retained their 

 old mode of burial though they had adopted in other ways the 

 habits and appliances of the later and probably more cultivated 

 people to whom the round barrows are to be attributed. A some- 

 what similar intercalation of burial usages appears to be evidenced 

 by the occurrence of a peculiarly-formed chamber in two barrow\s, 

 the one a round, the other a long one, at Nether Swell, and which 

 is noticed and remarked upon at p. 451. 



Parish of Over Silton, North Riding. Ord. Map. xcvi. n.w. 



CCXXVII. The district in which this barrow is situated abounds 

 in sepulchral mounds of the roimd form, and of probably a later 

 date than this one now under notice. The round barrows have 

 produced burials after cremation and by inhumation, the former in 

 some instances enclosed in cinerary urns. Contrary to .what I have 

 found to be the rule in Yorkshire, the bodies had been interred in 

 this long barrow without apparently having been in any degree 

 subjected to the action of fire. 



The barrow was placed south-east and north-west, and was 103 ft. 

 long, with a width of 30 ft. at the east and 25 ft. at the west end. 

 It did not appear to have ever been ploughed over, and was most 

 likely of about its original height, the highest point, where it had 

 an elevation of 4 ft. and a width of about 32 ft., being 40 ft. from 



