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PRE-HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF FIMBER : PART II. 
BY J. R. MORTIMER. 
In my previous paper I have shown that the site of Fimber had 
been long occupied in Pre-Roman times. In this paper I hope to 
give sufficient evidence to show this village, or some place near to it, 
to be the probable site of the long lost Delgovitia. 
Between Fimber and Wetwang, in the valley called "Bessingdale," 
near the corner of a British entrenchment, at a point designated 
" Blealands Nook," where the railway crosses the green lane, a 
Romano-British grave yard has been discovered. At this place 
(see accompanying map) the Roman road from Malton to Beverley 
(Petvaria?), crossed that from York ( Ebmxiciim), through Brid- 
lington to Flambro ( Prcetcn'ium 1 ). 
The first discovery in this graveyard was made in December, 
1868, in fixing the telegraph post which stands where the railway 
crosses the green lane. The body of an adult was then removed by 
a workman, but no relics were observed with it. A notice of this dis- 
covery was published shortly after in the Malton Messenger, and in 
the York Herald, in which notice it was erroneously stated, that the 
body was accompanied with flint tools. 
The second body was discovered in March, 1873, by labourers 
planting quickwood along the south side of the railway, 20 yards 
south-east of the body at the crossing, and was said to be in a 
doubled-up position, with its head towards the north. Nothing was 
associated with it. This discovery being made known, I obtained the 
skull from the workmen, and got permission from the North-Eastern 
Railway Company to make further search within the boundaries of 
the line. During May 9th and 10th, 1873, and several succeeding 
days, I examined the ground between the quickwood fence and the 
embankment of the line, and at the point marked "A" on the 
accompanying plan a small grave-shaped hole was met with about 
2 feet deep, containing dark soil, mixed with bits of burnt wood, and 
a few calcined human bones, but no relics. A body (No. 3) lay 3 feet 
10 inches deep in an oval grave, 7 feet by 8^ feet, on its left side, the 
