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turf-burning, and as having" no grit in them, as field ashes usually 

 have, but feeling soft and greasy when taken between the thumb 

 and finger.' Blacker ashes were also found to the north of the 

 central deposit ; and in a deposit from 8 to 10 feet to the north of 

 the central axis were found two serrated flint flakes, stones reddened 

 and calcined, and a splinter of glass. The presence of such an 

 article as this last shows that the eastward end of the barrow must 

 have been subjected to some comparatively recent disturbance — at 

 all events, of a kind which would favour the descent of a fragment 

 of such a modern substance as glass. As far as I could judge from 

 excavations made in 1874, the structure of the barrow was, with 

 the exception of the ossiferous zone, and disregarding accidental 

 disturbances made possibly at very different times, essentially 

 one and the same from one end to the other ; the mass of the 

 barrow consisting of slates and rubble arranged in a slant from 

 north and south outer walls respectively, so as to meet in the 

 middle line — as one of the labourers, employed in 1868 in carting 

 them away, expressed it, ' like the roof of a house.' The slanting 

 stones were supported externally by the boundary walls, similar 

 walling being intercalated here and there internally for the same 

 purpose. The converging slopes of flags and rubble had been 

 broken into here and there in the westward half of the barrow ; 

 and in exploring one such interruption of its continuity, about 

 20 feet to the westward of the skeleton-containing chamber, I 

 came upon a few bones of ox, of ancient date, mixed up with a 

 good deal of blackish earth, amongst the rubble. Mr. Royce 

 found a considerable number of such interruptions of the line of 

 the barrow in its westward half, ashes, and bones of lower ani- 

 mals, being found in them. Some of these interruptions of, or 

 alterations in, the arrangement of the component elements of 

 the barrow, may have been coeval with it ; those at the east 

 end may have been later — I am inclined to think very much 

 later — than that period. In this matter Mr. Royce does not agree 

 with me. 



There was found in this barrow a considerable quantity of 

 pottery, some of a coarse blackish kind, resembling that obtained 

 by me in considerable quantity from a long barrow at Market 

 Weighton, and like that, also, in having been intended for domestic 

 uses ; and some of the same black and red paste, but cigar-shaped, 



