BRITISH BARROWS NEAR HUNMANBY. 
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the solid chalk rock to the depth of about 3 feet. Here, altogether, 
four graves were met with. In the first was found the body of a 
man in the usual position, and in front of the face was deposited a 
nicely chipped flint knife about two inches long. The second grave 
contained the body of, probably, a man, with the hands placed upon 
the knees, and upon the hands and knees was deposited a burnt body 
which to all appearance would have been interred at the same time. 
Immediately in contact with the front of the feet was a knife made 
from yellow flint and of about the same size as the one found in the 
first grave. The shape, however, was more oval and less pointed. 
In the third grave was also found the body of a man laid on its right 
side, the head to the west, and in a more than usually contracted 
position. The fourth grave contained another male body with a 
"food vessel" deposited in front of the face, of similar construction 
to the other graves. Behind the head were three rude scrapers of 
flint, and a small piece of unworked jet. 
Barrow Xo. 4, measuring sixty feet in diameter and two feet in 
height, though much ploughed down was next dealt with. This 
barrow was constructed in a somewhat peculiar manner. A mound 
of earth, mixed with a little chalk had, apparently, been thrown up 
over the grave, in the first instance to the depth of about one foot. 
Upon this had been placed an additional mound mainly composed of 
chalk, but having some earth mixed with it. The mound was 
bounded by a carefully constructed wall one foot in height made of 
thin pieces of chalk laid horizontally. This encircling wall was not, 
however, complete, having a break 3 J feet in width at a point due 
south of the centre, a not uncommon circumstance, as similar 
enclosing circles, and like this incomplete, have been met with 
in other sepulchral mounds. The additional mound had again been 
covered by earth and chalk, thus completing the construction of the 
barrow which was found to contain a large grave 8 feet by 5 feet, 
and 4 feet in depth, but which showed no signs of ever having been 
used for interment. It had never been disturbed and no trace of 
bones was visible ; so that it would seem almost impossible to believe 
that any body could have been buried therein, and so entirely have 
disappeared. A similar absence of evidence of interment occurred in 
