DAVIS: ANCIENT FLINT-USERS OF YORKSHIRE. 413 
such pursuits ; varied by an occasional animal caught in the thick 
forests which extended over the swampy vale of Holderness. These 
early inhabitants are distinguished fi-om a succeeding people by their 
smaller stature, and the elongation of the head from the front back- 
wards ; V>y the softer contour of the facial angles, and by a general 
outhne that must have been of a t^-pe at once regular and capable of 
considerable beauty. The later people who appear to have introduced 
articles fashioned in bronze into Yorkshire were of a larger, stronger, 
and more rugged character ; their skulls were of a shorter and rounder 
form ; and prominent cheek bones, eyebrows and jaws gave them a 
less pleasing expression, and indicate a more aggressive and fierce 
type of man. The incursion of the latter, probably ffom some part 
of the Continent on the opposite shores of the North Sea, was any- 
thing but an unmitigated good to the earlier inhabitants, and the 
result appears to have been that they were subjugated, perhaps 
reduced to bondage ; their women were taken by the invaders, and 
gradually they and their works disappeared, absorbed by the victorious 
liordes of the invaders- The great series of mounds and earthworks 
which extend like a network fi'om Flamborough Head, westwards 
over the wolds, were in all probability erected by the later people. 
They were possessed of much greater knowledge thau their predeces- 
sors; and the fragments of linen and woollen fabrics found in 
their graves, together with pottery of an advanced type, and rings 
and beads used for ornament, prove that they were in possession of 
many refinements which were unknown in Yorkshire before their 
advent. 
Implements of flint have also been found in the lake-dwellings 
at Ulrome, and in the kitchen-middens in the neighbourhood of 
Kilnsey and Spurn. These present features more or less similar to 
those found in other districts of the East Riding, and in another 
place have been already described with some detail. 
The area from which flint implements have been obtained has 
been greatly enlarged, they have been found not only in the East 
Riding, the chalk wolds of which, together with Flamborough Head, 
are replete with flint nodules, but in the high ground bordering the 
county westwards, where no flint occurs in the strata nearer than 
