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ANCIENT BRITISH STAR-WORSHIP INDICATED BY THE GROUPING OF 
BARROWS. BY J. R. MORTIMER. 
(Communicated 29th October, 1896.) 
Plate XXXVI. 
The 196 barrows shown on the accompanying diagram form a 
selection taken from 292, which occupy an area of about 120 square 
miles on the Yorkshire Wolds. They are mainly arranged in sixteen 
groups, all of which I have opened. These groups (copied from 
the six inch O.S.) are placed on the diagram in the same relative 
positions to the cardinal points of the compass as they occupy on the 
surface of the ground. But, to save space, the groups are brought 
comparatively nearer to each other on the diagram, and are not 
shown in their true relative positions to each other. Also, in some 
of the groups, a few of the straggling barrows are left out of the 
diagram, as the following table will show, and the scattered and 
unrecognisable arrangements of the mounds of five of the groups are 
altogether omitted. 
As laid down on the Ordnance Survey Maps, the barrows are 
sometimes placed along an old trackway, either somewhat in a single 
line, or arranged after a definite figure, as shown in the centre of 
Group No. 1. They also occur more massed together, but, even in 
this case also, they are often placed in well-defined figures, formed by 
the placing of six to eight mounds, as shown on the diagram. 
Table showing the Number of Barrows in the Sixteen Groups ; 
also the Number of Barrows included in the Figures on the 
Diagram : — 
Group 1 consists of 20 barrows, of which 14 are shown on the diagram. 
>j ^ >) 10 )> j> 0 ,, ,, 
)> 3 ,, 35 ,, ,, 32 
>> ^ j> 1^ j> >j 17 }> j> 
5j 5 ,, 19 ^, ,, 19 
„ 6 „ 21 „ „ 7 
