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ture a forced one, which suggests that these fractured bones 
were the relics of persons slain at the funeral of the chief, 
and eaten by the guests ? Cannibalism has not been so unfre- 
quent that we need wonder at such a feast. 
The way in which the bodies were deposited in the long 
barrow at Scamridge, near Ebberston, was very singular, and 
I could not at the time exactly understand the method of 
burial ; this was, however, made quite plain by another on 
Willerb}' Wold. The body of the person in whose honour 
the barrow was erected, and the broken and dislocated bones 
of others, had been laid upon the ground in a line running 
east and west ; over them had been heaped, at Scamridge, 
oolite rubble ; on Willerby Wold, flints and chalk ; upon this 
had been placed wood, which was then set fire to, and thus 
the bones were consumed by the ignited lime. After this 
the barrow was thrown over all, the bones only reaching to 
about one -third of the length from the east end. At Scam- 
ridge the burning had not extended over more than one-half 
of the deposit of bones, and so I was enabled to recover 
several skulls, though not in a complete state ; but at Wil- 
lerby the burning had gone the whole length of the bones, 
which were completely calcined, and therefore useless so far 
as the type of skull was concerned, but enough remained to 
shew that they had been laid there broken and disjointed. 
I will not, however, linger any longer upon this question 
of an earlier race than that of the metal-using people, about 
whom I am addressing you, for it would require more time 
than I can ask you to give me to enter into the subject at 
length. I thought it well just to allude to it, for it is of great 
interest, and one which I think will, with further explora- 
tions, be satisfactorily worked out. Indeed, my last diggings 
on the Wolds have afforded me several facts which may prove 
of great service in this investigation. I found in many barrows 
the burials of persons who presented the two types of skull 
