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NOTES ON THE DANES' GRAVES NEAR DRIFFIELD. 
BY THE REV. E. MAULE COLE, M.A., F.G.S. 
The collection of tumuli, known as Danes' Graves, occur on the 
Wolds, at the junction of three parishes — Great Driffield, Xafferton, 
and Kilham. They are actually in the parish of Great Driffield, 
though in some reports they are described as being in the parish 
of Kilham. They are situated immediately to the south of 
a line of entrenchments which, roughly speaking, extends from 
Flamborough Head to Garrowby Hill top. This line of entrench- 
ments is remarkable for the fact that it forms the boundaries of all 
parishes from York to Flamborough. It is more or less sinuous, 
and, in all probability, marks the track of an ancient British way 
from Eburac (our modern York) to the coast. It may have been 
utilized by the Romans after their conquest of the country, as there 
is evidence (obtained by my friend, Mr. J. R. Mortimer) of a Roman- 
British cemetery on both sides of the road, in the parish of "Wetwang- 
with-Fimber, but I think that the Romans constructed another road 
in the rear, at a higher elevation, from Fridaythorpe, through 
Sledmere and Octon to Bridlington Bay, known as the High Street. 
The site of Pretorium, mentioned in the itinerary of Antonine, has 
long been a matter of dispute, and is so still, but when it is con- 
sidered that the Romans would probably wish to have access by sea 
to such an important place as Eburacum, then the capital of 
Britannia, it is not improbable that they would select the shortest 
land route, to which an ancient British way already pointed. The 
destruction of the boulder-clay clijffs to the south of Flamborough 
Head, which, since the Roman occupation, has resulted in a loss of 
some two miles of coast-line, will account for the fact that we are 
unable to point out the site of the lost Pretorium. Like some 
antiquaries, with little knowledge of the district, it is "all at sea." 
One thing is almost certain — which I have often insisted on in 
various papers — that the Romans would never dream of rounding 
