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and also that of a young goat or sheep, both sharing the same gTave 
with the body of a Briton, under a small barrow; and Canon Greenwell 
found two goats accompanying a body under one of the Danes graves 
tumuli near Driffield ; whilst a horse and a pig accompanied a body 
in one of the barrows on Arras, opened by the late Rev. E. Stilling- 
fleet during 1817/'' At Fimber the animals had cists to themselves. 
These Romano-Britons also show an anatomical feature of interest 
which has been seldom noticed in any bodies from the barrows. 
It is this ; the measurements in most cases show a marked differ- 
ence in length and strength between the right and left humeri. Had 
the bones of both arms, in all or more cases, been sufficiently pre- 
served and uninjured to have admitted of a careful measurement, 
probably there would have been more striking examples of this 
interesting feature. Might not this unequal length and strength of 
the right arm over that of the left have been developed by the con- 
stant training, during youth, in the art of using the spear and 
throwing the javelin ? 
The length of the long bones show them to have belonged to 
rather small persons. It will be observed that no fragment of 
pottery was found in any of the graves, though it was found with 
numerous animal bones abundantly in disturbed ground and trenches 
close by. Neither, as before mentioned, were any of the bodies 
accompanied by any relics, which, in this feature also, contrasts 
gi'eatly with barrow burials and with Anglo-Saxon interments. It 
seems almost certain that a small Roman station or settlement 
existed near here at the time of these interments. 
This appears further evident from the existence of a series 
of filled-in trenches, arranged somewhat in the shape of a gridiron 
near the south-west side of the gi-aveyard (fig. 13). These trenches, 
like the graves, are quite invisible on the surface, but being mainly 
charged with rich soil, they are in a dry season indicated by green 
ribbon-like lines or strips in the growing corn. 
The plan of these trenches was obtained by digging numerous 
sections during the summer of 1874, a few of which I give with 
measurements. It will be observed that they differ a little in width 
* Oliver's History of Beverley, p. 4. 
