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In the village of Hawnby are numerous indications of 
tumuli. On the estate of Mrs. Hamer, of Daleside Lodge, on 
Sunny Bank, there are twenty of these mounds. This locality 
is a sort of spur running out from the eastern side of the 
Hambleton Hills, and overhanging the village. It is crossed 
by an ancient dike, on the west side of which there is a 
group of tumuli, consisting of a large one in the centre of 
eight or nine much smaller, and has apparently been a ceme- 
tery. These have all been examined by Mr. Murray, of 
Daleside Lodge, and Mr. Verity, of South woods, and only 
three of them supplied any interesting results ; for an account 
of which I am indebted to these gentlemen. The larger 
tumulus, to which I have just alluded, probably Anglo- 
Saxon, was 120 feet in circumference and four feet in height. 
It contained the skeleton of a young female, evidently of high 
rank, who, from the various decorative articles and personal 
ornaments which still accompanied it, might once have been 
a form of considerable personal attractions. At the head was 
a bowl of thin bronze, with three handles, about eleven inches 
in diameter, which had a wooden cover ornamented with strips 
of bronze arranged in a diamond pattern, and fastened with a 
bronze hasp. The wood was decayed, and the lid had fallen 
inside the bowl. Her waist had been encircled by a leathern 
girdle, of which the buckle or clasp was made of two plates of 
gold, one of which, worked or engraved in a cross- shaped pat- 
tern, and set with four garnet- coloured glass ornaments, still 
remained. These plates were riveted together by four gold 
rivets, leaving a space between, in which a fragment of the 
leather was still in its original position. Hear the head were 
two pins, one of gold, about two inches in length, with a flat 
pear-shaped head, on which a design in lines was marked; the 
other silver, of larger size, probably a bodkin, with two holes 
perforated through the upper part. There were also several 
rings made of silver wire, the ends joining together in a 
