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COLE : THE DUGGLEBY HOWK." 
Altogether eleven perfect skeletons and 53 discs of cremated 
human bones were met with in the course of exploration, and the 
whole of them found underneath the undisturbed blue clay which 
constituted the covering of the inner mound. It must also be 
noticed that detached fragments of unburnt human bones were met 
with here and there, and notably portions of the skulls of infants. 
These must have been thrown in haphazard as the mound was being 
raised. 
The opening of this interesting tumulus by Sir Tatton Sykes, 
under the able supervision of Mr. J. R. Mortimer, yields the follow- 
ing important results : — 
1. That the weapons are all of flint of the polished stone age. 
2. That no trace of bronze was met with. 
3. That no urns or remains of pottery were found with the solitary 
exception of the food vase mentioned above. 
And 4 — a fact which is quite unique in the records of other open- 
ings of tumuli in England — that no less than 53 deposits of 
burnt human bones were discovered lying above the interred 
remains, in little shallow holes an inch thick, either in the 
chalk grit or underlying brown clay. 
