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deposit, still there is scarcely one of tliem of anything 
approaching medium size but has been the receptacle of 
later interments ; not a few of such later interments being 
such as, either from the manner in which they have been 
made, or from their own peculiar character — possibly from 
both conjoined — to be of singular interest to the archaeologist ; 
perhaps even, eventually, to the ethnologist also. 
I will now try to give as succinctly as possible some of the 
results on which the statement just made is founded. And 
first, I will refer to the investigation of a very large houe on 
the Skelton Moors, which cost me the labour of five days, with 
four men at work each day. The proofs of former opening 
at the centre were only too unmistakable, and although no 
sherds or fragments of calcined bone were discovered in any 
stage of the excavation, yet a very careful examination made 
over an area of several feet in diameter about the central 
part of the basis, left no reasonable ground of doubt that 
the original deposit, whatever it might have consisted of, was 
gone. However, at a point twenty feet to the south of the 
centre, there was found — what, if I may apply an archi- 
tectural term, might be called — an inserted cairn, of about 
five feet in basal diameter, and three feet high, flanked all 
round by large flat slabs of stone, and capped with another. 
In the very centre of this I found a roughly fashioned 
incense-cup (so called), accompanying a considerable deposit 
of calcined bones, and the remains of some large flint imple- 
ments, which had flown to pieces in the burning. Near the 
southernmost edge of the cairn, and enveloped in clay, I found 
a small urn, of red ware like the cup, accompanying another 
deposit of burnt bones, and with three jet beads embedded in 
the clay, but in actual contact with the urn. The natural 
inference was that the remains in the latter case were 
those of a female, and that, as covered by the same cairn, 
and so, "not divided in death/' this man and this woman 
