296 MORTIMER : SUMMARY OF SO-CALLED " DANES' GRAVES." 
left to discover; and, secondly, I am obliged to say that the 
investigations have been conducted so recklessly, so carelessly, and 
even so indecently — the graves were not even filled up again — that 
I have determined not to again allow them to be disturbed. In the 
Museum at York you will find various articles that have been found. 
I myself do not possess one, they have all been taken away, or 
I would send them for your inspection, if you wished it. 
" Believe me to be, 
"Yours faithfully, 
"W. H. Harrison-Broadley." 
Though the hacked appearance of the mounds showed much 
cause for Mr. Broadley's complaint, I was sorry not to be permitted 
to make further search. However, since then, natural causes have 
given me some assistance. 
On October 20th, 1881, the late Mr. Henry Kingston, who 
occupied the farm nearest to "Danes' Graves," informed me that the 
high wind of the previous Friday had uprooted a large quantity of 
trees in the " Danes' Graves " Plantation ; some of which had torn 
up the ground sufficiently to expose interments. On the following 
day [the 21st October], in company with Dr. Wood, of Driffield, 
I visited the place and its surroundings, and we observed that 
a double line of British entrenchments ran along the northern 
margin, extending for miles both in an eastern and a western 
direction from the graves. We also noticed that the southern side 
of the hollow " Danesdale " which the graves occupy was covered 
with an accumulation of un-water-worn chalk gravel, which gravel 
does not extend to the opposite side of the dale. 
The uprooting of the trees was mainly confined to the gravelly 
area ; those growing on the chalk rock on the north side of the dale 
having for the most part resisted the violence of the w'ind. The 
first exposure which had attracted Mr. Kingston's notice was 
a calvarium pulled up by the roots of a tree which had grown 
on the apex of one of the mounds. Through the kindness of 
Mr. Kingston I possess this calvarium. It is long and narrow, with 
a breadth-index of "69, and altogether of small size, and apparently 
belonged to a female. 
