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NOTE ON A BRITISH BURIAL AT 

 MIDDLETON-ON-THE WOLDS.* 



J. RrMORTIMER. 



On June ist, 1905, Mrs. Broadley Soane, of Middleton-on-the- 

 Wolds, wrote to me to the eftect that another skeleton had 

 been found in the sand-pit, together with a vase and a flint 

 dagger. On June 3rd I visited tlie pit, but by that time 

 nothing remained in sight. There was a skull, in many frag- 

 ments, and the broken bones were in a heap at the pit side. 

 The left femur was the only bone sufficiently perfect to be 

 measured, and this was 19I inches in length, evidence that 

 the owner was a little over six feet in height. The skull 

 has been pieced together, and gives a cephalic index of .665. 

 The supraciliary ridges are fairly prominent. 



Fig. I. 



From what I could gather from Mr. Soanes, the body had 

 been interred in a flexed position, on its left side, with the head 

 towards the East. I was not able to ascertain the positions 

 occupied by the accompanying reHcs. 



The objects found with the interment include a ' drinking 

 cup ' or ' beaker,' some flint implements, and two jet buttons. 



The ' drinking cup ' (fig. i) is 7J inches in height, 5J inches 

 in diameter at the top, 6 inches at the middle, and -3I inches 

 at the bottom. It is freely ornamented in various patterns, 

 the impressions being made by a notched tool. 



* A supplementary note to page 354 of my ' Forty Years' Researches 

 in British and Anglo-Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire.' 



Naturalist, 



