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in one of which, occupied by Mr. William Brambles as 
tenant of the Corporation of Beverley, and in other fields 
adjoining, there is a continuous embankment, inclosing a 
long square, within which are remarked many pit-formed 
hollows in the ground, and boulders and other stones which 
appear to have been brought from the beach are turned up 
by the plough, especially near the embankment. According 
to the popular tradition of the locality, this place was at 
some remote period the site of a town or village ; but such 
traditions are to be received with caution, and the number 
of large barrows scattered about would seem rather to 
point to the brow of the hill as a primeval cemetery. Its 
position is exactly such a one as the early inhabitants of 
our Island were accustomed to choose for that purpose. 
Five of these barrows have been recently opened by a 
Yorkshire friend, Mr. Edward Tindall, of Bridlington, a 
gentleman who has made himself remarkable for the zeal and 
success with which he investigates the remains of antiquity 
in that district, and I have thought it would not be without 
interest to the members of the Society to give them a brief 
account of the result of his investigations, according to the 
information I have received from Mr. Tindall himself. Mr. 
Tindall commenced his labours (assisted by his friend Mr. 
Collinson) at the beginning of the month of April, 1857, and 
opened a tumulus standing by itself, and the nearest of them all 
to the town. At the depth of about two feet from the top of 
the tumulus, the remains of two skeletons were found, among 
burnt earth and a little charcoal. The bones were much 
decayed, but the jawbone of one of them, which was better 
preserved than the rest, was pronounced by a medical 
gentleman present, (Dr. Allison,) to be that of a youth 
under fourteen years of age. Mixed with the burnt earth 
and charcoal were several strippings of flints and a quantity 
of light-grey vegetable ashes. Mr. Tindall continued the 
