holmes: pre-historic remains of rombalds moor. 287 
which will readily be understood by a reference to the annexed wood- 
cut. It is in the form of an angle or corner of a parallelogram, and 
measures eighty feet in leng-th on the west, and thirty-six feet on the 
south side. It consists of a fosse, with an agger on each side. The 
breadth of the fosse from the top of each side agger is about twenty- 
seven feet, and the depth about three feet four inches. The length 
of the two outer ridges or aggers is two feet four inches, and the entire 
breadth of the interior edge to the exterior edge of the outer agger 
is forty-five feet. "Within the circle, which appears to have been 
disturbed previously, were found ashes, burnt bones, and charcoal, 
together with a broken urn. At a distance from these remains, and 
at a depth of two feet from the surface, another broken urn was 
found, which when entire had been about seven inches in diameter 
and nine or ten in depth. It was in an inverted position, ornamented 
by zig-zag (chevron) lines, and contained similar remains to the last, 
among which was a flint arrow head, represented exactly by the an- 
nexed woodcut. Anotlier examination appears to have been made by 
other visitors to the common, in a cairn almost reduced to the level 
of the ground, where after removing stones to about a foot in depth, 
there was found a small quantity of ashes, charcoal, and calcined 
bones, apparently those of a young female, amongst which were the 
remains of a smaU earthenware urn, reddened by the action of fire. 
This, judging by the fragments, had been about four inches in 
diameter at the top, and six or eight inches in depth, of the form 
represented in the woodcut." Mr. WardeU, in the above account, 
hopes that these interesting remains may be preserved from the 
demolition that all the neighbouring cairns have suffered under, by 
labourers removing the stones comprising them, for repairs to the 
roads. A visit paid in August, 1883, showed to the Bradford Anti- 
quarian Society the fact that they had remained much as left by the 
explorers, or at least there certainly had been no systematic attempt 
to disturb or destroy them. It may be added that a similar urn to 
the last was discovered in a dish-like circle filled by the evidences 
of cremation at Hough Hill, on the other side of the Aire, near to 
Pudsey, about four miles distant, in December, 1879. 
These positive and characteristic evidences of the dead are 
