DAVIS: RELATIVE AGE OF THE REMAINS OF MAN IN YORKSHIRE. 213 
a platform was erected, covering an area of seventy-five feet by fifty 
feet, and connected by a bridge or gangway, with the rising gi'ound 
towards the east. The interstices between the timbers were filled 
with branches and twigs of trees until a level surface was obtained; 
upon the solid surface thus obtained there w^as placed about eighteen 
inches of smaller twigs and bark, and on this erection, probably reach- 
ing a short height above the water were erected the dwellings of the 
builders. In process of time the timbers appear to have become to a 
large extent rotten, and there is a second platform erected on the first. 
It is similar in construction, held together by pointed stakes, but in 
latter structure the points of the stakes are much longer, and have 
evidently been cut by a sharper instrument. The top of the second 
platform is three feet below the present surface of the ground. During 
the excavation many interesting objects have been found. On the 
lower platform they consisted of stone and bone implements: rounded 
stones for pounding gTain; pointed or sharpened stones pierced with 
a hole, and used as hammers or adzes ; flint flakes, used as knives 
and for other purposes, are common. The bone implements are 
mostly large and of rude form, some of them of a type previously un- 
known. The large leg bone of the ox is broken diagonally across, and a 
hole bored in the upper part through which a stick can be placed, forming 
a gouge-like instrument, probably used as hoes for tilling the ground. 
The antlers of deer have been used for the same purpose. Pieces of 
pottery of an early British type occur. In addition to the bones of 
the animals already named, there have been found the jaws of wolves, 
tusks of wild boar, head of horse, and red-deer : bones of sheep, dog, 
and smaller animals, as well as the bones of birds, probably geese. 
All these have been found in the interstices amongt the twigs and 
bark on which the dwellings of the earlier occupiers were erected. In 
the upper part, above the second platform, a fine bronze spear-head 
has been found. It appears, from a consideration of these objects, 
that the second platform may have been the habitation of families of 
men of the same period as the round-headed, bronze-using people who 
built the barrows some miles to the northwards ; whilst the original 
constructors of the older platform, who had no knowledge of bronze, 
but used only flint and bone implements, were of the older type 
