MORTIMER : SUMMARY OF SO-CALLED DANES' (;RAVES." 291 
X. On April 2nd, 1894, Mr. Thomas Dowson, of Pickering, 
informed me that he accompanied the late Mr. Thomas Kendal, of 
Pickering, to "Danes' Graves" in 1849 or '50, and that they then 
opened three of the mounds. In each they found a body, accom- 
panied by pieces of rusted iron ; but he did not remember anything 
else having been found, and Mr. Kendal seems to have kept no 
record. 
My first visit to these graves was in 1860, and I found in the 
hedge bottom near the mounds a rudely-formed top-stone of a hand- 
mill. On the grinding face of this stone are a series of concentric 
lines scratched into it, reaching from the centre to the circumference ; 
whilst the two oval holes for inserting the handles have been 
punched or picked into the stone, not drilled into it, as are the 
holes in all the other mill-stones I possess. 
XI. The following and most complete account is by Canon 
Greenwell, in the Archjeological Journal, vol. xxii., which I beg 
permission to repeat. 
" The barrows next examined [B] lie a little beyond the district 
which we have been considering, 
" They are found in a hollow in the chalk hills of the Wolds, 
about four miles north of Driffield. They are called the " Danes'^ 
Graves," and number nearly 200, lying close together in a wood. 
Several were opened a few years ago by the Yorkshire Antiquarian 
Society [Club], but the greater number have been destroyed in 
digging for rabbits. I examined fourteen of these barrows on 
March 27th and 28th, 1864. They are all small, from 16 ft. to 
24 ft. in diameter, and from 2 ft. to 4 ft. in height, and are formed 
of chalk rubble, the material at hand. The interment, in every one 
which I examined, as I believe was the case in those previously 
opened, was contained in an oblong hollow made in the natural 
surface, and the bodies appear to have been laid therein without 
coffins. 
"As all the interments were, except in some unimportant 
particulars, similar, I will give the general character of the burial, 
* Before the Wolds were enclosed a great many more existed ; it is stated 
that there were, originally, as manj' as 500. 
