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material as stone, not simply superseded alike the old arts and 
the old implements, but rendered their continued use alike 
vain and absurd. I suppose that many, perhaps the more 
part, will dissent from these views. And for that reason 
principally I think it desirable to add that within the last few 
weeks I have seen an urn which was taken, late last autumn, 
from a barrow in Northumberland, and which singularly 
resembles that one of mine which contained the hammer ; 
resembles it in general shape, ware, ornamentation, and 
appearance, differing mainly in respect of somewhat 
superior size ; and which contained among other things not 
specially indicative of age, a small fragment of what once 
had been probably a bronze pin. Perhaps, also, it is only 
fair to add that the urn which I found in such intimate 
association with mine and, as noticed, of marked or peculiar 
form, would certainly be placed, as regards presumptive age, 
from its material, marking, and general appearance, high up 
among the entire collection of secondary urns. 
I had purposed adding a series of remarks on the structure, 
exceedingly varied and in many respects extremely interest- 
ing, of the grave-hills themselves ; as also upon several 
ascertained grave-rings, and some apparently quite barren 
grave-hills. But I am fully aware that I have already, if 
anything, exceeded the limits assigned me ; and therefore, 
however reluctantly, I forbear. 
On the whole, I conclude that while some of the 
phenomena adduced seem to hint not obscurely at a suc- 
cession, once or more frequently repeated, of occupants of 
the district, the general bearing of the combined facts goes to 
shew that the most recent interment met with in this portion 
of Cleveland, dates back more than twenty-five centuries; 
while with respect to the earliest, they seem to me to pertain 
to an era so remote, that a century or two more or less makes 
no practical difference. 
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