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Nofes (Did Co:nmetits 



of the district. In the Mortimer Museum at Driffield are two 

 exhibits of exceptional interest and importance, from the fact 

 that they are precisely in the positions in which they were found. 

 The first is a British burial (female) from a barrow at Garton 

 Slack. Behind the skull is a bone hair-pin ; a flint scraper 

 occurs near the teeth, and two flint implements exist in place of 

 some of the bones of the left foot, which had obviously been 

 severed at the instep some time before burial. The curious 

 crouched position of the interment is admirably shown in the 

 photograph. 



AX ANGLO-SAXON INTERMENT. 



In Ang-lo-Saxon times the interments were of a very diff'erent 



description. Instead of the 

 objects accompanying- the 

 interments beings of stone 

 and bone, and occasionally 

 bronze, it is found that they 

 consist of a larg-e proportion 

 of iron implements. The 

 second figure is of a skele- 

 ton from an Anglo-Saxon 

 ce meter}' near Garton 

 Slack, on the Wolds, and 

 it will be seen that the 

 method of interment is of 

 a totally different character. 

 The body in this instance 

 was interred on its chest, 

 with the head twisted 

 round to the left. At the 

 waist is an iron knife, 

 which had evidently been 

 inserted in a belt, the iron 

 buckle of which remains. 

 Near the pelvis are some 

 animal bones, evidently the 

 remains of food placed with 

 the interment, and at the 

 feet is a plain globular food 

 vase. The two illustrations 

 are from Mr. Mortimer's 



Naturalist, 



Anglo-Saxon Interment. 



