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twist, blue glass beads, a portion of a knife, and several much 
corroded fragments of iron, a small circular stone perforated 
in the centre, probably the whorl of a spindle, and an oblong 
bronze ornament of unknown use. The body was lying with 
the head to the north, and the bones much decayed. The 
cutting edge of the front teeth were filed into three points: 
a singular custom, probably indicative of some peculiarity of 
rank or tribe to which the deceased belonged, and to which 
I have not seen any allusion in previous disinterments. 
Dr. Barnard Davis, however, one of the learned authors of 
Crania Britanniea, informs me that he has in his pos- 
session an Ashantee skull, the upper front teeth of which 
have been chipped to points. This is a most remarkable cir- 
cumstance, as it shows that a similarity of custom has pre- 
vailed between two tribes so widely separated by time and 
locality, as an Anglo-Saxon of probably the fourth or fifth 
century of our era, and a native of Western Africa of the 
present daj r . The only difference is that in the Ashantee 
the pointing has been confined to the upper front teeth, and 
in the Yorkshire skull to the lower. 
It is much to be regretted that the above series of personal 
ornaments, &c, were not retained complete. The bowl is 
now in the possession of Mr. Craster, of Middlesbrough, and 
the other articles, with the exception of the gold buckle, 
are in the possession of Mrs. Hamer. Of the eight smaller 
tumuli, only two or three were found to contain interments, 
or at least the remains of such. One had a skeleton with 
its head to the west, and the legs bent backwards in the 
usual position of those found in Celtic or British tumuli, but 
no ornaments or utensils accompanied the remains. The 
other tumulus, about fifteen feet from the above, was eight feet 
in diameter and two feet in height, surrounded with stones, 
and contained the skeleton of a man, lying at full length on 
his right side, with the head to the south. Near the thorax 
