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two feet in height, and upon this platform a heap of stones 
piled, leaving a second hollow basin-like cavity at the top of 
the Cairn, one foot in depth and three feet in diameter. In 
this also occurred bones, &c, placed on a large stone of a flinty 
nature. Several pieces of flint were found, but no arrow- 
heads or other instruments. The largest stones were found 
about the centre of the Cairn and around the base ; possibly 
a circle of large stones had been first formed, and the other 
stones subsequently built upon it. The Cairn itself was 
covered with earth to the depth of two feet above its summit, 
as also the bones in its centre. The quantity of bones 
discovered in the two deposits were unequal. That in the 
lower much greater than the deposit at the summit, and 
from being quite distinct from each other it is possible there 
were two distinct burials in the tumulus. 
My opinion of the matter is, that the body was burned on 
the summit of the hill, and after the cremation, what 
bones remained unconsumed were collected for burial. The 
platform of earth was then raised on the spot where the 
body had been burned, the Cairn placed upon it, the bones 
placed in the basin before-mentioned, and the whole covered 
with earth. Clay is usually found in tumuli, but there was 
none in this. Cairns are sometimes strongly marked by fire, 
but there were no indications in this instance of the action 
of fire. 
No fragment of pottery, either modern or antique, was 
found in the removal of this hill, or any sign whatever of 
civilisation, which tends to show its vast antiquity. 
A gentleman w r ho has had great experience in such 
matters, pronounces it to be decidedly of early British 
construction, and for the purpose of burial. 
Three miles to the N.W. of it stands the vast tumulus at 
North Deighton, which is about 500 feet in circumference at 
the base, with an ascent of seventy feet. 
