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the manners, customs, and funeral rites of the primitive 
inhabitants of this part of Britain. 
Having previously made arrangements for opening this 
sixth tumulus, Captain George Collinson and myself com- 
menced our operations on the 13th of October, 1857, in 
a field adjoining that in which was situated the last 
tumulus recorded in a former communication, and from 
which it is one hundred and fifty yards distant, that is 
to say, about three miles north of Bridlington, to the right 
of the old coach road from the latter place to Scarborough, 
where two conical hills in close proximity are still to be 
seen. The one on the extreme east is that to which I 
have now to call attention and with which my operations 
were connected. From the elevated position of this mound, 
an extensive view is obtained of Bridlington Bay and 
Holderness to the south-west, and on the north-east, a 
more extensive view of the German Ocean, Flambro' Head, 
Buckton and Speeton cliffs. It is about 100 yards in 
circumference and about nine feet in depth. After removing 
the surface earth, and by means of a trench about five feet 
wide and six feet deep, we approached the centre of the 
tumulus. A quantity of flint chippings were here discovered, 
the fractures of which were remarkably fresh in appearance, 
looking in fact as if they had been broken the same day, the 
edges were so sharp, but they were all bright, and, therefore, 
unlike recently broken flints, which are invariably dull on 
the fractured surfaces. Amongst these, occurred one very 
fine example of flint implement, and a second not unlike 
a leaf-shaped arrow-head. On resuming our labours 
on the second day, the 14th, we came down to a human 
skeleton, and upon carefully removing the surrounding 
soil to prevent any derangement of the bones, and especially 
the skull, a fine flint spear head of the leaf-shape pattern, well 
made and remarkably sharp at the edges, was observed in an 
