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time occupied our country, were of a different race from the 
metal-using people who intruded upon and subdued them. 
I will very briefly give you my reasons for this belief, at 
the same time I must tell you that Yorkshire affords only a 
few facts which bear upon this question. 
In many districts, and more especially in "Wiltshire and 
Gloucestershire, there still remain a number of sepulchral 
mounds of peculiar shape, where are found the burials of 
men, women, and children, whose skulls present very marked 
features. In these mounds, which are very long in propor- 
tion to their breadth, the interments are always at the east end, 
which is higher and broader than the west ; and the skulls 
of the buried people, like the mounds, are long in proportion 
to their breadth, and also different in many other particulars 
from the heads of the bronze-using people who lie buried in 
the round barrows. Now with these apparently earlier inter- 
ments, no objects of metal have ever been found associated ; 
the only implements or weapons being made of flint or bone. 
The discovery of secondary burials, of the people of the age 
of bronze, evidently introduced into these mounds, at a time 
subsequent to their first erection, proves that they belong to 
an earlier time than that of these round-headed bronze-using 
people, and as in no case, and a very large number have been 
examined, has any article of metal been found in them, it is 
not an unfair inference to assume that at the time they were 
raised, metal was unknown to the people who erected them. 
Other features of a very peculiar kind have been observed in 
the burials of the long barrows, both in Wiltshire and else- 
where. In one I opened in the North Riding, near Ebbers- 
ton, there were the remains of about fourteen bodies, of all 
ages and of both sexes ; and of several of these the state of the 
bones, broken and widely scattered in fragments, shewed that 
a violent death had overtaken them, and that the flesh had 
been removed before the bones were interred. Is the conjee- 
