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the body has been burnt, than where it had been laid in the 
grave unburnt. Burnt bodies, also, may be still more fre- 
quent than we suppose them to be, judging from the numbers 
which have been discovered casually, for being very frequently 
deposited without any urn, they may have easily escaped 
detection by labourers in agricultural works, whilst a skeleton 
is certain to have excited attention. The proportion varies 
too, in different, though adjacent districts ; for instance, near 
Castle Howard I found about twenty cases of cremation, and 
not one of inhumation ; on the Wolds near Sherburn, Ganton, 
and Weaverthorpe, on the contrary, to forty-five cases of 
inhumation there were only six of cremation ; again, at 
Enthorpe, near Market Weighton, it was reversed, and 
fifteen burnt bodies were found, and only one unburnt. 
The body, when buried unburnt, appears to have been 
deposited clothed ; the remains of garments, as well as dress- 
fastenings, have been found, and more frequently the impres- 
sion of such upon the oxidized metal of associated weapons. 
In districts where suitable stone occurs, the body is generally 
laid in a kist, made usually of four stones set on edge, with a 
cover or covers, sometimes of great weight and size. Where 
stone adapted for this purpose does not occur, then the grave 
is often a hollow, of various depths and sizes ; I have seen 
them from two to ten feet deep, and from three to ten feet in 
diameter, sunk into the rock. At other times it is laid on 
the surface of the ground, whilst in very rare instances — of 
which the Gristhorpe burial, the remains of which are in the 
Scarborough Museum, is an example — the body has been 
placed in a split and hollowed-out oak trunk. In all these cases 
it is in a contracted position, the knees drawn up towards 
the chin and the hands crossed oVer the breast, or touching the 
chin, or on or under the knees. With whatever object this 
mode of placing the body was adopted, it was not caused by 
the size of the grave, for I have seen a kist seven feet long 
