288 MORTIMER : SUMMARY OF SO-CALLED " DAXES' GRAVES." 
less than an acre of ground covered over with them, joining close to 
each other ; and it is one of the greatest curiosities of antiquity, in 
my opinion, I have ever seen ; I am determined one day to go and 
number them, and to measure the quantity of land they cover." 
YI. Mr. Allott, Rector of Kirkheaton, says : — " At a place 
called Kilham, near Bridlington or Burlington Bay, was a battle 
fought, and there are many tumuli or graves " ; and asking some 
persons who were stubbing whins or gorse, they told him there was 
one under the whins, and several round about him. He says 
further, "that many are sunk level with the ground, but by what 
remains he supposes there were twenty thousand slain. "There 
are axe-heads, spears'-heads, etc., constantly dug up in opening 
them."^ 
"A stone is set up on high [at Rudstone] as a steeple, which 
no engines now used could raise. It is supposed to be set up by the 
Danes in a line between the field of battle and Burlington Hill, 
where their camp is yet to be seen very perfect."! 
Bronze Armlet from Danes' Graves. 
YII. Dr. Thurnham drew the attention of the meeting + to 
a bronze Armilla (plate xli.) in the Ashmolean Museum, presented 
October, 1830, by the Rev. W. Drake, of Broomfield House, 
Northallerton, by whom it was exhumed from one of the remark- 
able group of barrows near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, 
commonly known as the Danes' Graves. Mr. Drake stated that the 
skeleton in this barrow — which, like the rest, was of very small 
elevation — was lying with the feet to the east. Under the skull 
was a large stone described' as of blue granite, and within it " the 
constituent parts of an iron comb." With the skeleton was the 
bronze Armilla here figured, and the fragments of another of highly- 
polished jet encircling the radius and ulna of the left arm. The 
fragments of jet were not preserved. The ornamentation of the 
Armilla found near Driffield is of a peculiar and rude kind, and is 
* Recent researches do not bear out the finding of axe-heads and spear- 
heads.— J. R.M. 
t Thomas Bateman, " Ten Years' Diggings," p. 251. 
J Archreological Journal, vol, xvi., p. 8.3. 
