230 MORTIMER : PRE-niSTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF FIMBER. 
far as we could gather from the workmen, had their legs more or less 
pulled up. They were accompanied with bits of iron and fragments 
of pottery, most of which were destroyed at the time. A few of the 
latter are possessed by the writer, and they seem to be Anglo-Saxon. 
The remains of these bodies were put into a barn, and afterwards 
examined by the late Dr. Clements of Wetwang, who pronounced 
them to belong to small persons, chiefly females and juveniles. This 
discovery produced a considerable amount of excitement at the time 
among the villagers, and elicited from the late Mr. S. Broadley, the 
owner of a small plot of ground extending from the Wesleyan chapel 
towards the church, that he remembered in planting the apple trees 
in his garden, and at other times when having to dig a little way into 
the subsoil, that he had frequently found bones. 
Flint arrow-heads and Roman coins have, at various times, been 
found in digging into the ground contiguous to the church barrow. 
It is also w^orthy of record that other bodies and weapons have, 
at various times, been found in places near the village. I remember 
being greatly impressed, when a boy, by my grandfather bringing 
home the under jaws belonging to bodies which had been exhumed in 
quarrying chalk to repair the roads, at a point where the entrench- 
ments are cut by the road to Sledmere, about oOO yards eastwards 
from Fimber Station : and an old labourer, named Lockwood, who 
w^as for many years servant with my grandfather, remembered human 
bones, and what he described as an iron sword, having been found 
many years since, where the road to Malton cuts the same entrench- 
ments about 300 )^ards northwards from Fimber Station ; whilst 
nearly half a mile to the S.S.E. of Fimber Station, by the side of the 
road from Malton to Beverley, which is on the site of the Roman road 
between these two places, and where this road is crossed by a green 
lane, which, we believe, is also the site of a Roman road from York 
to Bridlington and on to Flamborough, we, during 1873 and 1874, 
explored a portion of a Romano-British gi-aveyard, a description of 
which I may give at some future time as a supplement to this paper. 
