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confined to the exterior, the inner surface being smooth and plain. 
The style assimilates somewhat to that of a gold armlet in the 
Copenhagen Museum, figured in Wasaje's " Afbildninger," fig. 302. 
VIII. Mr. John Browne, of Bridlington Quay, has favoured 
me with the following account: — "In 1834-, Mr. John Milner, of 
Kiiham, Dr. Andrew Allinson, and a party of others, opened one of 
the largest"^ of the tumuli in a group. After exploring some time 
without success they turned to the outer side, when they came upon 
a full-sized skeleton, which was complete, with the exception of the 
feet, which were wanting. (The pelvis gave indication of its being 
that of a female.) The vertebra seemed for the most part to be 
anculosed, and the femora and other bones showed it to be the 
skeleton of a female. In another tumulus a small Urn was turned 
up, but it was broken by the spade of the digger. It contained 
a quantity of fine black mould. Another of the skeletons turned up 
was also of large proportions. In the skull was a hole, which had 
undoubtedly been made during life ; and on the leg bone was a cut 
from a sharp instrument, which appeared to have also been made 
during life. Various other " diggins " have been made by several 
other persons, especially by a man named Jesse Wood, of Langtoft. 
He possessed a considerable collection of articles which he found, 
but I am unable to say what became of them." f 
IX. I give an account by W. Proctor, M.R.C.S., of the 
opening of six of these mounds by the Yorkshire Antiquarian Club, 
in 1849. 
" Near the east edge of the " Yorkshire Chalk " Wolds, three 
miles north of Driffield, is a secluded spot of woody ground, 
measuring four acres, covered with tumuli of small size and slight 
elevation, so closely arranged as not to leave more than 3 ft. to 6 ft. 
between any two of them. The form is circular, with an average 
diameter of 18 ft., and an elevation from 2 ft. to 3 ft. 
"In August, 1849, six of the tumuli were opened. Each was 
found to consist of the chalk of the district, mixed w^th a small 
Probably this is No. 11 of the mounds opened in July, 1897, and 
described in Part 2, later on. — J.R.M. 
t Probably some of these may yet be in existence. 
