mortimkr: summary of so-called "Danes' graves." 287 
"Memorandum — that about two miles south-westwards of 
Kilham, on the Wolds, at the skirt of the rising ground, are divers 
heaps of earth to be seen, most of which are not above three foote 
in depth to the level of the earth, and some hardly so much, the 
distance of them from each other being in divers places not above 
four foote, and in some about six. They are many in number [300 
at least as I ghesse] and of various biggness, being by the country 
people called ' Danes' Graves ' ; so that there is no doubt but that 
they did cover the bodies of such as were slain in wharre there. In 
other parts of the country are also here and there one, but of 
a much greater magnitude." 
III. The following passage in Gibson Camden's Brittanico, 
published in 1695, page 738, probably alludes to "Danes' Graves" : 
" Somewhat more eastwards the River Hull runs into the Humber ; 
the rise of it is near a village called Driffield, remarkable for the 
monument of Alfred, the most learned King of the Northumbrians ; 
and likewise for the many barrows raised hereabouts." 
lY. The following is an extract from the Kilham Parish 
Register, 15th May, 1721 : — "That on the day and year above said 
we, the Vicar and twenty horsemen, who were beating the bounds, 
began our perambulations on the west side of Pockthorpe, and in 
our procession we came nigh the Danes' Graves, in Driffield Field, 
where out of curiosity we caused a man to dig in one of the said 
graves. When digging, we found a large thigh bone, one leg bone, 
and one skull, of no extraordinary size, with several other bones. — 
Signed, Thomas Prickett, Yicar." 
V. In a letter from Mr. Thomas Knowlton to Mr. Mark 
Catesby, F.R.S., concerning the situation of the ancient town 
Delgovicia, occurs the following note : — 
" Londisburgh, Sept. 1745." 
" Within a mile and a half of Kilham is a place called Danes' 
Graves, near which, it is supposed, was fought a great battle, in 
w^hich infinite numbers fell ; and so were laid in heaps and covered 
with the chalky soil in little tumuli, of the quantity of two or three 
square yards ; in which, if opened, one may find great quantities of 
human bones, though, at this distance of time, I believe there is not 
