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The broken long bones were also small. The barrow which 
covered this interment was not more than 15 ft. in diameter and 
24 in. high ; and the body seemed to have been placed a very little 
below its base. On the following Wednesday [October 26th] 
I employed an experienced digger, who, with the assistance of 
Mr. Kingston, junior, carefully explored the ground whence the 
calvarium had come, but as most of the long bones had been 
removed, the position of the interment could not be made out; no 
relic was found. 
The uprooting of another tree had, however, exposed the feet 
of a second body. Here also we carefully examined the ground 
beneath, and were able, fortunately, to make out its position. 
This body was also near the centre of a small mound about the 
size of the last, and not more than 3| ft. deep from the top of the 
mound. It lay on its left side, leg much pulled up, left arm down 
by the side with hand on pelvis, the right arm was over the body 
with hand on left arm. Its head was to the west. Near the right leg 
were the humerus of a small pig, or goat, and portions of a crushed 
food vase, which also had a splayed bottom (plate xlii.), other 
portions of which lay near the right arm, and seemed to have been 
removed by rabbits burrowing in the mound. Otherwise, the body 
was undisturbed and in fairly sound condition. The skull, which 
was crushed, has been put up, and seems to be that of a male of 
about 35 years of age, with a cephalic-index also of "69. The 
forehead is low and the superciliary ridges well developed. The 
femur measures '17 J, tibia "lij, and the humerus *12J, and they 
are of rather slender substance. Eleven other crania from these 
graves [obtained by the Yorkshire Antiquarian Club and by Canon 
Greenwell] give an average breadth-index of about •73'*', which 
shows them to belong to a decidedly long-headed type. The vase — 
the upper part of which is wanting — is hand-made, quite plain, of 
a coarse, dark texture throughout, containing particles of pounded 
quartz and flint, and has been tolerably well baked. It has a broad, 
flat, and very thin bottom, and is very unlike any I have ever found 
with a true British interment in the large barrows on the Wolds. 
It rather resembles a rude kind of dark Roman, or Romano-British 
