756 General Notes. [November, 
either circular or ‘long, the former being the more abundant, 
and are frequently surrounded by a ramp ora ditch. In some 
cases this was within the base of the barrow, and very generally 
it was incomplete. ‘This very remarkable feature,’ writes Mr. 
Greenwell, ‘in connection with the inclosing circles, is also found 
to occur in the case of other remains which belong to the same 
period and people as the barrow. The sculptured markings 
engraved upon rocks, and also upon stones forming the covers of 
urns or cists, consist in the main of two types, cup-shaped hol- 
lows and circles, more or less in number, surrounding in most 
cases a central cup. In almost every instance the circle is imper- 
fect, its continuity being sometimes broken by a duct leading out 
from the central cup; at other times by the hollowed line of the 
circle stopping short when about to join at each end, The con- 
nection of the sculptured stones, if so they may be termed, with 
places of sepulture brings’ them at once into close relationship 
with the inclosing circles of barrows, and it is scarcely possible 
to imagine but that the same idea, whatever that may have been, 
is signified by the incomplete circle in both cases. The rings of 
to allow of access to the habitation. The dead were buried in — 
the barrows of the wolds, very generally in the condition and 
clothing in which they died, the proportion of cases of inhuma- 
tion to those of cremation being as 301 to 378, or about 80 per 
cent. In all probability both customs were carried on simultane- 
ously, as was the case in ancient Rome, where, however, inhuma- 
tion was mainly confined to the lower classes. Where inhumation 
had been practiced the body was buried in the crouching position 
in which life had departed, and which would be natural where the 
=- of Mr. Evans, is most likely true. The burnt and broken bones 
of various animals used for food, in the barrow, are probably the - 
-~ remains of funeral feasts, held at the time of the interment, OF 
from time to time afterwards, or they may be the remains of food — 
offered to the dead. Splinters and various manufactured imple- 
ts of flint and fragments of pottery also occur sometimes |! 
