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shape and type from those which are found in exchisive posses- 

 sion of the older and longer barrows) are found in great abund- 

 ance, sometimes, as in the South, in exclusive possession of the 

 sepulchre, sometimes in company, as in the North, with skulls of 

 the older type. The skulls are often strikingly like those of the 

 same type from the Danish tumuli. On this coincidence I should 

 not stake much, were it not confirmed by other indications. And 

 foremost amongst these indications I should place the fact of the 

 * Tree-interments,' as they have been called (interments, that is, 

 in cofRns made out of the trunk of a tree), of this country, and of 

 Denmark, being so closely alike. The well-known monoxylic coffin 

 from Gristhorpe contained, together with other relics closely similar 

 to the relics found at Treenhoi, in South Jutland, in a similar 

 coffin, a skull which, as I can testify from a cast given me by my 

 friend Mr. H. S. Harland, might very well pass for that of a 

 br achy cephalic Dane of the Neolithic period. Canon Green well 

 discovered a similar monoxylic coffin at Skipton, in Yorkshire ; and 

 two others have been recorded from the same county — one from the 

 neighbourhood of Driffield, the other from that of Thornborough. 

 Evidence, again, is drawn from Col. Lane Fox's opinion that the 

 earthworks which form such striking objects for inquiry here and 

 there on the East- Riding Wolds must, considering that the art of 

 war has been the same in its broad features in all ages, have been 

 thrown up by an invading force advancing from the east coast. Now 

 we do know that England was not only made England by immi- 

 gration from that corner or angle where the Cimbric Peninsula 

 joins the mainland, but that long after that change of her name 

 this country was successfully invaded from that Peninsula itself. 

 And what Swegen and Cnut did some four hundred and fifty years 

 after the time of Hengist and Horsa, it is not unreasonable to 

 suppose other warriors and other tribes from the same locality may 

 have done perhaps twice or thrice as many centuries further back in 

 time than the Saxon Conquest. The huge proportions of the 

 Cimbri, Teutones, and Ambrones are just what the skeletons of the 

 British Round-Barrow folk enable us now to reproduce for our- 

 selves. It is much to be regretted that from the vast slaughters of 

 Aquae Sextiae and Vercellae, no relics have been preserved which 

 might have enabled us to say whether Boiorix and his companions 

 had the cephalic proportions of Neolithic Danes, or those very 



