YORKSHIRE TUMULI. 
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Five of these barrows have been recently opened by Mr. Edward 
Tindal, of Bridlington. In the first at a depth of 2 feet from 
the top, the remains of two skeletons were found among burnt 
earth and a little charcoal. Several chips of flint were picked up, 
but no other objects of interest. At a short distance are two other 
mounds in a field belonging to }\Iy. Y. Lloyd. In these the chalk 
rock had been first uncovered and hollowed into the form of a bowl, 
18 inches deep and 9 feet in diameter. The bodies were placed in 
this receptacle, and the bowl was filled in with fine mould, and above 
this was raised the tumulus formed of large chalkstones covered over, 
when finished, with a coating of rubble and fine soil. This tumulus 
was about five feet high above the surface. No human remains were 
found, but a considerable quantity of bones of carnivorous and rumin- 
ating animals, and tliree articles in bronze, one of them a fibulae, of 
rather unusual form. In the third barrow, which closely resembled 
the last, nothing was found except a few fragments of bones, some 
charcoal, and a quantity of dark-coloured, fatty earth, and four flint 
implements. The fourth barrow opened by Mr. Tindal was nearly 
40 yards in circumference. In this was found two urns of slightly- 
baked earth, containing some pieces of leather and a quantity of hair. 
These were placed in hollows made in the chalk for their reception, 
and were covered by a flat piece of flagstone on one, and a piece of 
chalk on the other. From the cut and jagged edges of the leather, 
it was probable that it had belonged to some ornamental part of the 
dress. The fifth tumulus was similar to those already described. 
Several urns are described which have been discovered by Mi\ Tindal 
and Mr. Cape, also of Bridlington, in the exploration of other mounds ; 
and the paper concludes with a description of an attempt, with the 
assistance of Lord Londesborough, to open a large mound known as 
Willey Hone, about a mile from the village of Wold Newton. A 
number of men cut a large trench on one side of the tumulus, but 
after three or four days labour, finding that the work was likely to be 
of a much more extensive character than was anticipated, the investi- 
gation was relinquished. 
A tumulus was opened at Thorpe Arch in 1859, a description of 
which was given by Mr. F. B. Carroll, of Boston Spa. It is on the 
