292 MORTIMER : SUMMARY OF SO-CALLED " DANEs' GRAVES." 
noting separately those which presented any exceptional features. 
The bodies were doubled up, so as to suggest that they must have 
been tightly swathed, in order to bring them into the required 
shape ; the hands were placed upon the chin, the bodies were laid, 
some on the left side, some on the right of those which were 
sufficiently perfect to determine this, six were on the left and five 
on the right side ; and whilst seven had the head to the north, or to 
the west or east of north, two had the head to the south-west, one 
to the west, and one to the east. In one instance two bodies were 
interred in the same barrow ; the fii'st — that of a child about Mve 
years old — just below the summit of the mound ; the second — that 
of an old person, and judging from the imperfect pelvic bones, most 
probably a male — in the usual hollow made in the natural surface 
of the ground. In three of the graves an Urn had been placed 
close behind the head ; these Urns, however, were so much decayed 
that the shape can scarcely be ascertained. They are quite plain, 
pale, gray-coloured on the exterior, but of a dark-coloured ware in 
the middle, full of small pieces of stone. These Urns are well 
formed b}'^ the hand, with the lip slightly turned over, and they 
measure a little under 5 in. in height. The most remarkable 
interment [C] was that of a man laid upon his right side, with 
his head to the west ; lying close to the mouth — so close that some 
of the teeth are discoloured by the oxidation of the metal — was 
a piece of iron, too much corroded to assign any certain use to it 
[see woodcut, fig. 1, half original size].! On each side of the man 
were placed two goats, their heads, like his, to the west. The 
occurrence of a goat with an interment is exceedingly rare ; we have 
numerous instances where a horse, ox, deer, boar, or dog has been 
buried with a man, but except this at Danesdale, I have only known 
of two other cases where a goat has been found associated with 
a burial. | In the almost entire absence of weapons or implements 
* Of five bodies discovered, when the examination by tlie Yorksliire 
Antiquarian Club took place, two had been laid ixpon the face. 
t See Canon Greenwell's paper in the Archseological Journal, vol. xxii. 
J In a barrow six miles north of Pickering was a cist, in which was found 
a skeleton, where, along with several flints, was deposited near the head of 
the man a head of a goat. Bateman's "Ten Years," Diggings, p. 223. At 
