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the least affected — the charges consisting of one pound of powder, 

 and the projectile weighing seven and three quarter pounds, the 

 bore being two and a half inches. But some slight inconvenience 

 was experienced from the recoil, on account of the lightness of the 

 cannon, which weighs only 167 pounds. 



ARCH^OLOGIA, 



During the past summer, and a part of the autumn, extensive 

 researches have been made under the direction of the Rev. William 

 Greenwell, of Durham, well known for his successful antiquarian 

 labours, into the early barrows, or sepulchral mounds in the North 

 of England. These researches have been attended with interesting 

 results, but we can still only look upon these barrows as belonging 

 to a very questionable date, which it will require more facts than 

 are yet known to determine. This year, Mr. Greenwell's labours 

 have been confined chiefly to the neighbourhood of Castle Howard 

 and Malton, the latter place undoubtedly the representative of a 

 Roman town. In general, the barrows opened by Mr. Greenwell 

 present variations in the modes of interment, examples of which 

 were already known in Yorkshire ; but altogether they are of so much 

 interest, that we hesitate in attempting any detailed account of them, 

 until, as we trust, the discoverer will give us, as he alone is capable of 

 doing well, his own description of them, with engravings of the ob- 

 jects found. The greater number of these interments were attended 

 with cremation, and accompanied chiefly with urns of rude pottery, 

 and a few wrought flints. The pottery, whether urns or cups, be- 

 longs to a type already well known, and in much of which the eye of 

 an antiquary well experienced in Roman antiquities can hardly fail 

 to recognise a rude imitation of Roman forms and ornaments. The 

 most remarkable of these interments was that of a great tumulus on 

 Langton Wold, which separates the Birdsall valley and the chalk 

 wolds from Malton and the Yale of Derwent. This barrow is stated 

 to have contained near the surface a series of Anglo-Saxon inter- 

 ments, underneath which were other important interments, supposed 

 to be British. A few feet from the centre of the barrow, a stone 

 wall was found, formed of fiat stones laid edgewise, and in a direc- 

 tion nearly north and south. In digging away the stones of the 

 wail, towards the centre of the tumulus, a skeleton was found, which 

 proved to be that of a very tali man. The body had been laid on 

 its left side, with the knees doubled up. More than one other 

 skeleton was found which had. been interred in the same manner. 

 One was that of a female, which was laid on its left side, also with 

 the knees drawn' up. The body had been surrounded and covered 

 with stones so as to form a rude cist, and the personal ornaments of 

 the deceased had been buried with her. These were three cowry 

 shells, and extraordinary numbers of the red-striped small snail- 

 shells, one jet bead, three bronze bodkins, part of a belemnite, 



