Mortimer : British Remains near Cawtiiorn Camps. 265 



In July 1896 I visited Mr. Tiiomas Mitchelson's Museum at 

 Pickering, which now contains the late Mr. Kendall's collection 

 of British relics, but no portion of this chaplet now remains. 

 Howev^er, I got a very vivid confirmation of this find from 

 Mr. Dowson, V\^ho accompanied me to the museum, and who 

 assisted the late Mr. Kendall in all his barrow excavations, and 

 was present when the chaplet was found. Mr. Dowson pointed 

 out to me the two vases which accompanied the chaplet, and 

 told me that a bone pin and a bone hook were also found with 

 the plaited hair. 



Kendall, about the year 1849, also found the remains of 

 a British chariot in a barrow close to the Cawthorn Camps, the 

 wheels and other parts of which are now in the possession of 

 Thos. Mitchelson, Esq., of Pickering. 



I well remember Mr. Kendall naming this find to me many 

 years ago, and he much regretted that he was not able to 

 sketch, so as to give the shape and position of the chariot. He 

 described the mound as being mainly composed of light-coloured 

 sand, and said that the position and, in the main, the form of 

 the chariot was clearly visible. The tyres of the wheels were 

 well preserved, whilst the pole (which had measured about 

 7 feet) and other woodwork was shown by dark lines of decayed 

 wood, clearly defined in the clean, light-coloured sand. It is 

 much to be regretted that so good an opportunity of obtaining 

 a restoration of a British chariot was lost. 



On 2nd April 1894 I interviewed old Mr. Dowson. He fully 

 confirmed what Mr. Kendall had told me about the chariot, and 

 added that the mound is situated very near the south-eastern 

 corner of the most easterly of the three camps, and that at the 

 time its height would be a little over 3 feet. One of the chariot 

 wheels was pressed down nearly flat, and the decayed wood of 

 the spokes, which numbered only four, was shown ver}- clearh'. 

 The other wheel stood upright and nearly reached to the top of 

 the barrow. Mr. Dowson said the pole reached eastwards about 

 7 feet from the body of the chariot, and at the terminal end were 

 decayed hooks and rings of iron and brass. 



In reply to further inquiry, he said there were no human or 

 animal bones or any other article with the chariot, which seemed 

 to have been placed on the old surface line under the barrow. 

 Unless the interment was a cremated one, simply placed in a heap 

 at the base of the barrow and not observed by Mr. Kendall, 

 I am inclined to think that the owner of the chariot may have 

 been buried in a grave somewhere under the mound, and that, 

 after his body was covered up, the chariot was placed upon or 

 near the grave, and then covered with the mound. 



1905 September i. 



