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with his wife and slaves; for that seems a natural way 
of accounting for the occurrence of other bodies, besides that 
which appears to have been the principal interment, and 
which have all been certainly laid in the grave at the same 
time. I know of an instance where a man of good stature 
and well-formed head had been buried in the centre of a 
barrow, with his weapons and implements, whilst round him 
were placed several bodies, the skulls of which were all of 
one and that a low type, and whose stature and frame 
showed them to have been persons of very inferior size and 
strength to their lord, for such it is likely was he who occu- 
pied the central position in the mound. 
The woman was buried with her ornaments, and other 
articles. I found a female interment on Langton Wold, 
where in front of the waist were laid a jet bead, two sea- 
shells pierced for suspension, three cowrie shells unpierced, 
three small bronze-awls or stilettoes, and two bone imple- 
ments of uncertain use, apparently the humble jewels and 
. tools of a British lady ; the one to add, in another life, some 
additional grace to the charms which had already captivated 
her lord, whilst he lived in the valley of the Derwent, the 
other to minister to his wants when he ranged over wider 
and better- stocked hunting-grounds than those he had left. 
Associated with interments of burnt bodies have been 
found stones, marked with the remarkable concentric circles 
which have lately attracted so much attention. They have 
been engraved upon the under side of flat stones, covering 
the deposit of bones. I know of four cases in Northumber- 
land, two in Yorkshire, and several other instances haye 
occurred elsewhere. These emblems — religious, no doubt — 
have now been found from Argyleshire to Dorsetshire, and 
in Ireland, but not hitherto beyond the United Kingdom. 
Perhaps Northumberland has produced a greater number 
than any other district; this may, however, arise from the 
