212 DAVIS: RELATIVE AGE OF THE KEMAIXS OF MAX IX YORKSHIRE. 
burial of persons of high rank or standing there is evidence that a 
custom prevailed, which existed until recent times amongst the 
Hindoos, of killing at the funeral, and burying with the man, wives, 
children or others. The frequent discovery of several bodies, all 
certainly interred at the same time, or of two persons of different 
sexes, with the remains of children, are incidents difficult to account 
for in any other way. 
As to the age of the round-headed people only an approximate 
idea can be formed. They introduced bronze implements into the 
Wold district, but they do not appear to have had any knowledge of 
iron. The latter metal was known to the people whom Julius Caesar 
found occupying the country, and was probably known for two or three 
centuries previously. We shall be quite safe, therefore, in fixing the 
age of the more recent named builders earlier than the advent of the 
Romans, aud it is very likely that 1000 to 500 B.C. will be rather 
within the mark than beyond it. 
The lake dwallings at Ulrome, seven miles south of Bridling-ton, 
have a peculiar interest to the archaeologist. They are the first of the 
kind discovered in England, and Dr. ]\Ionro is of opinion that some 
portion of them are of a much older date than the Scotch crannoges, 
which are somewhat similar in construction. Holderness is to a large 
extent artificially drained ; the water is run through drains into the 
sea at low water, and when the tide rises it is prevented by sluices 
from re-entering the drains. Scattered over the district there are 
numerous remains of ancient lakes and peat bogs, and there is no 
doubt that at one time the whole of the district was in a great part 
under water. It was during that time that the structures were erected 
that gave support to the lake dwellings. One of these was discovered 
by j\Ir. Boynton, of Ulrome Grange, and has been most carefully 
investigated by him. The structure was erected on the edge of a 
lake, its base being about ten feet beneath the present level of the 
ground. Large tree trunks, about twenty feet in length and eighteen 
inches in diameter were laid horizontally at the bottom, and secured 
by rudely pointed stakes driven into the bed of the lake on each side 
the trunk ; between these parallel timbers others were placed trans- 
versely, the whole being connected together by wood stakes until a 
