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A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE TUMULUS OPENED AT THORP ARCH, 
IN MARCH, 1859. BY F. B. CARROLL, ESQ., OF BOSTON SPA. 
On the summit of a small hill, from which there is 
a somewhat extensive view, adjoining the Walton and 
Wetherby road, partly on the road and partly in the 
field, about a mile to the west of Walton Church, stood 
a conical hill eight feet in height, and rather over 200 feet 
in circumference. 
It is situated in the parish of Thorparch, and about 
200 yards to the southern side of the Harrogate and Church 
Fenton Railway. The centre of this hill was found to be a 
large heap of boulder and other stones of very various sizes, 
some of considerable dimensions, and all in a rough state 
and unhewn. 
The Cairn itself was five feet in height, and twenty-four 
feet in diameter, and contained at least fifty cart loads of 
stones. The top of the Cairn was formed in the shape of a 
basin, and at the bottom of this basin or hollow were found 
about two hands-full of apparently charred bones, amongst 
which were small fragments of bronze or rather oxide, no 
doubt the remains of some coin or ornament, but so far gone 
as to render it perfectly impossible to ascertain anything 
definite as to its original shape or use. 
From observations made during the removal of the stones, 
the tumulus appeared to have been made thus : — On the 
surface of the ground at the summit of the hill, a cavity had 
been formed one foot in depth, and three feet in diameter, in 
which were found a considerable quantity of charred bones, 
in small fragments, mixed with burnt earth and charcoal, 
but no remains of bronze and stone. Several pieces of flint 
were found, but if any of them were arrow-heads or other 
stone instruments, they were certainly of the rudest kind. 
Above this deposit, a platform of earth had then been raised, 
