DAVIS: RELATIVE AGE OF THE REMAINS OF MAN IN YORKSHIRE. 209 
are hundreds of raised mounds, some of an elongated form, others 
more or less round. A large number of these have been opened by 
Canon Greenwell, and also by Mr. Mortimer, of Driffield. They 
have been found to contain human skeletons, and with them, objects 
buried with the body, which, like the North American Indians of 
to-day, the sorrowing relatives supposed w^ould be of service to the 
dead in a future state of existence. In the long mounds or barrows, 
as they are termed, the skeletons as well as the objects found with 
them are very different to those found in the round ones. The 
builder of the long barrow w^as a man with a long head, much longer 
from ,back to front than broad ; whilst the round barrows contain 
bodies wath round heads, in which the breadth equals or exceeds the 
length. In the round barrows implements of bronze, ornaments of 
bone and jet, and pottery of varied forms have been discovered ; 
whilst the long barrows contain no bronze, but only impliments of 
flint, similar in all respects to those already enumerated as having 
been found on the surface; the pottery associated with the flints is 
of a ruder character, quite distinct from that of the round bar- 
rows. Whilst some of the round barrows contain only round skulls, 
others are more or less mixed with those of the earlier long-headed 
people, leading to the inference that the latter, first in possession of 
the soil, were overrun by the roundheads, and that a gradual amalga- 
mation of the two tribes then took place, but that eventually the long- 
headed people succumbed to their conquerors, and were gradually 
exterminated or died out. Canon Greenwell says" "When w^e come 
to consider the characteristics of these two distinct peoples, we 
observe at once a wide difference in their appearance. The long- 
headed one does not appear to have been either so tall or so strongly 
made as the other. The average height of the first may be taken to 
be about 5 feet 6 inches ; that of the other as about an inch more. 
The dolicho-cephalic (long-headed) people were also of a somewhat 
softer outline, in all the features of the head and face, than the more 
rugged brachy-cephalic (round-headed) people. The cheek bones 
are by no means prominent, nor, as a rule, are the supraciliary ridges 
so much or so early developed as in the round-headed skull, both of 
* British Barrows, 1877, p. 127. 
