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on a piece of rising- ground about half-a-mile from Sunbiggin Tarn, 

 and was composed of limestone and sandstone, some of the stones 

 being of large size. It had a direction south-east and north-west, 

 and was 179 ft. long, 62 ft. wide at the south-east end, 36 ft. at the 

 north-west end, the highest part (10 ft. 8 in.) being 30 ft. from the 

 south-east end. Below this highest part, 39 ft. from the end of 

 the barroWj and rising 6 ft. above the surface level, with the top 

 4 ft. below the surface of the mound, was a large slab of sandstone 

 {menhir), placed transversely to the line of the barrow, and ap- 

 parently forming the termination of the primary burial deposits. 

 These had all been made along the mesial line of the mound upon 

 the natural surface (the turf, as in the last case, having" probably 

 been first removed) and under a structure, from Z\ ft. to 4 ft. wide, 

 formed in that peculiar manner which has been observed in some 

 other barrows. The general features of that part of the mound in 

 which the burials had taken place were very much like what has 

 been found to be the arrangement in several of the long barrows 

 an account of which is given earlier in this book, reference more 

 especially being had to those at Westow [No. ccxxiii], Kudstone 

 [No. ccxxiv], Wass [No. ccxxv], and Market Weighton [No, 

 ccxxvi]. The human remains had been placed on the surface, and 

 then over them stones and wood had been piled in such a manner 

 as to facilitate the burning of the bones along the whole line of 

 the deposit. In the barrow now under notice, what may be re- 

 garded as flues had been formed, at close intervals, by an evidently 

 designed arrangement of the stones. These rose from the level of 

 the deposit of bones through the overlying limestones up to the 

 surface of the mound, the object clearly being to keep up a draught 

 so that the fire might not die out before all the bones had been 

 subjected to its action. The origin of the burning appeared here, 

 ,as at Rudstone, Market Weighton, Westow, and Wass, to have 

 taken place in a trench excavated below the surface transversely to 

 the line of the mesial deposit. This trench was placed 8 ft. from 

 the south-east end of the mound, and was 7 ft. 10 in. long, about 

 3 ft. wide, and 2 ft. deep, having at the middle a portion 2^ ft. long, 

 sunk 1| ft. below the bottom, thus making the trench at that point 

 34 ft. deep. It was full of burnt earth, burnt stones, and charcoal, 

 and at the lowest part were two small pieces of calcined bone, but 

 whether human or animal it is not easy to decide. At the western 

 edge of the trench the mesial deposit commenced, having a width 

 of about 4 ft., and although the whole was completely burnt, no 



