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PRE HISTORIC REMAINS IN EAST YORKSHIRE. 



In our May issue we referred in somewhat g-eneral terms to the 

 nature of the work recently published dealing- with the pre- 

 historic relics found in East Yorkshire. The book contains 

 material for an unlimited number of essays dealing- with almost 

 every branch of pre-historic archaeology. In the present article, 

 however, reference can only be made to some of the more 

 interesting objects found in the burial mounds, examples 

 of which are figured on Plates VI., VII., IX., and X. Amongst 

 those most frecjuently met with are earthenware vessels 

 and stone implements, though objects of bone, bronze, jet, 

 etc., also occur in association with interments. Reference 

 to the accompanying plan and section of a barrow at Acklam 

 \\^ o 1 d a d m i r a b 1 \- 

 illustrates the 

 crouched positions 

 in which the skele- 

 tons are usually 

 found, as well as 

 the positions occu- 

 pied by the vessels 

 and objects occur- 

 ring therewith. As 

 will be seen from 

 the section, most 

 of the burials were 

 made in g-raves cut 

 into the solid chalk. 

 These were covered 

 by a mound of chalk 

 rubble, and at some 



later period a secondary interment (Fig. 2, No. 2) was cut into 

 the rubble, the whole being covered by a mound of toug-h clay. 



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