MORTIMER : OPENING OF THE TUMULUS " HOWE HILL," DUGGLEBY. 221 
an instrument of uncertain use. A little above the body we found 
the neck vertebrae of an ox and other pieces of animal bone. On the 
western edge of this shallow grave (marked " A " on the plan) were 
the inhumed remains of an adult, about 70 years of age (marked " D "), 
of large stature, with head to west and over the eastern edge of the 
centre grave (marked " b "), into which it had settled some 10 inches. 
It lay on its right side in the position shown on the plan. Femur 
and tibia measured 20 inches and 17^ inches respectively. In front 
of the face of the body lay a beautiful knife (pi. x., fig. 2) of almost 
transparent glass-coloured flint. It is of a rare type" and very thin, 
having been ground down on both sides to not more than T \j of an 
inch in thickness. The length of this beautiful specimen is 2f inch., 
and breadth 1/^ of an inch. Its smoothly rounded ends are so 
formed that it might be used equally well either as a knife or a 
spoon. A deposit of burnt bones was found in the position numbered 
24 on the plan, and about the same depth in the mound as Nos. 1 to 
7. Nothing with it. Over the centre grave (marked "b" on the 
plan) and about 3 feet above the base of the barrow lay the much 
decayed body of a child, marked " £ and about two feet under it 
was the body of a youth 8 to 12 years of age, marked " f," on the 
left side, head to S.W., knees pulled up, and hands in front of face. 
Femur and tibia measured 14 inches and 11 J inches respectively. 
No relics. About two feet lower than the last body and about one 
foot into the grave " b," was an adult male, marked "a," who 
probably reached the age of 60, laid on its right side in a flexed posi- 
tion, and head to N.E. Femur and tibia measured 18 and 14 inches 
respectively. This body was distorted by the unequal settling of 
the grave below. In front of its chest lay a hammer head made 
of the root end of a shed antler of the red deer, and near it was 
a diamond-shaped arrow-head (pi. xi., fig. 2) of dark-coloured flint, 
which unfortunately had lost its point. There was also a most 
beautiful axe (pi. x., figs. 1-1 a) made of drab-coloured flint, re- 
sembling such as might have been obtained with careful selection 
from the neighbouring beds of chalk, 9^ inches long, lying with its 
* The writer only knows of one similar knife, which was found by him 
in a barrow on the " Aldro Farm." 
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