220 MORTIMER : OPENING OF THE TUMULUS " HOWE HILL," DUGGLEBY. 
of the chalk layer to near the base of the core of clayey soil. Except 
a few burnt portions of a bone pin with No. 20, and a piece 
of the lip of a food- vase with No. 12, no relic accompanied any of 
the deposits. Near the deposit No. 19 and about two feet from the 
base of the mound, was found the greater half of the under-jaw of a 
young person having the back molar just rising from its socket. Two 
more cremated deposits (Nos. 21 and 22) were found. Just to the 
east of No. 21 were the much decayed unburnt remains (marked a) 
of a very young child, and ten inches lower was the inhumed body 
(marked b) of a youth from six to ten years of age, on the right side, 
knees up and head to the east. A femur and tibia measured 13 and 
lOi inches respectively. This body was 19^ feet from the apex of 
the mound, and one foot from its base. No relic accompanied this 
body, but about two feet to the south and two feet higher in the 
mound was a stag's-horn pick (pi. x., fig. 4) with the point broken off ; 
and about ^ne foot above this and a little further south was another 
pick (pi x., fig. 5) also of stag's-horn, with the point much worn. 
Only one deposit of burnt bones (No. 23 on the plan) was found, at 
a depth of 17 feet from the apex of the mound; but in a shallow 
grave, only nine to ten inches below the ancient turf line, and at 
the depth of 22^ feet from the flat top of the mound, vertically under 
the body marked " b, ' lay a body marked " c " on its left side, head to 
N.N.E., both hands near the face, and the knees brought up to a 
right angle with the trunk. A femur measured 16f inches, a tibia 
13 \ inches, and the right and left humerus 13 inches respectively. 
These are of medium strength. The skull is dolicocephalic, the 
bones of great thickness, and belonged to a person about 50 years of 
age with fine features. A fine bone pin (pi. x., fig. 3) 9i inches long, 
lay about three inches behind the back of the body, with the point to 
the hips. A little way behind the shoulders lay several flint flakes, 
also worked flints, as well as several tusks of the boar. A similar 
deposit lay a few inches behind the hips. In all there w T ere thirteen 
flakes and six worked flints (pi. ix., figs. 2-6) all of dark-coloured 
foreign flint. There were also two incisor teeth of the beaver 
(pi. ix. fig. 10) ; and the number of boars' tusks was twelve, pi. ix., 
fig. 8, being one ; and pi. ix., fig. 9, is another which has been cut into 
