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possible to affiliate the Committee with that body. This was duly 
brought about, and with promises of other assistance, the end of 1892 
saw a Joint Committee formed under the presidency of the Duke of 
Devonshire, and consisting of Ven. Archdeacon Boyd, Sir M. W. 
Wilson, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, and Messrs. W. L. Carter, W. 
Cheetham, W. Cudworth, J. W. Davis, J. R. Eddy, E. T. Hartley, 
W. Home, Walter Morrison, J. R. Mortimer, W. A. Proctor, C. S. 
Roundell, M.P., Edwin Speight, T. Tate, R. H. Tiddeman, and 
J. J. Wilkinson, with E. E. Speight as Honorary Secretary. In 
response to an appeal for subscriptions, issued by Mr. Davis, the sum 
of £80 was promised, including £10 from the Duke of Devonshire, 
and a similar sum from Mr. Walter Morrison, whilst General Pitt- 
Rivers was one of the first donors, sending £5. 
Meanwhile, permission to excavate in Upper Wharfedale was 
freely granted. As early as October, 1892, the Duke of Devonshire 
had generously consented to work being conducted in the extensive 
Grass Woods : a month later Sir Matthew Wilson wrote giving us 
power to make any examination we liked upon his property, and 
expressed his interest in the work. Mr. Wm. Proctor, of Rylstone, 
was equally kind, the land owned and tenanted by him including the 
Norton Tower district and much of Bordley Moor ; and verbal per- 
mission having been readily accorded by various landowners on whose 
property w T ere situated interesting remains, we had almost the whole 
district under our charge by the date of the first Committee Meeting, 
March 26th, 1893. 
On that day, after carefully inspecting the remains close to the 
village of Grassington, a short conference was held under the chair- 
manship of Prof. Boyd Dawkins, at which it was decided to com- 
mence work as soon as possible, the first operations to consist of the 
examination of certain mounds and the making of various plans. 
Accordingly, on April 5th was commenced the further examin- 
ation of a barrow which I had relieved of its central interment the 
previous summer. This mound is situated in one of the higher 
pastures of the Coniston Liberty, named the Capstick Back Pasture 
(1891 Ord. Map, sheet cxvi. 13, in parcel 64, just to right of Old 
Lime Kiln). It is circular, with a diameter of 62 feet and a height 
