270 Sheppard: The Early History of Filey. 
not quite so perfect examples of which are recorded in other 
areas. At Reighton, many years ago, I watched Canon 
Greenwell open some tumuli, though a large jet bead — of the 
Bronze age — was the only relic found. More recently Mr. 
Danford and I opened two others, but we obtained little beyond 
a large quantity of flint flakes. 
From Hunmanby and other villages roundabout, the Hull 
Museum contains some fine bronze-axes which have been turned 
up by the plough, and other relics of that period are known. 
There are earthworks, too, belonging to this period, or 
possibly a little earlier, but they do not appear to have been 
so well investigated here as they have been further south on 
the Wolds. 
Objects relating to the Early Iron Age are comparatively 
rare, anywhere ; but close to Filey, at Hunmanby, I had 
the pleasure a few years ago of excavating a chariot burial of 
this period. This was a particularly lucky find, as among 
the seven-hundred East Yorkshire burial mounds examined 
by Canon Greenwell and the late J. R. Mortimer, they only 
found about half-a-dozen containing remains of chariots. 
The grave I opened was on the side of Mr. Parker’s brick- 
pit at Hunmanby. It was quite a small burial, and all trace 
of a mound had disappeared. Among the relics found were 
the chariot wheels, in an upright position, the bronze bridle-bit 
and other horse trappings, traces of a shield, and remains 
of a horse. The date of the burial was of the second or first 
century, B.C. 
The early geographer, Ptolemy, records that there was in 
his time in this district a tribe of the Parisi, presumably a 
branch of the Parisii on the Seine, who left their name in the 
city of Paris. The ancient tribe of the Brigantes also occupied 
East Yorkshire in pre-Roman times, but which was in occu- 
pation first, or whether both lived in the area as ‘ neighbours,’ 
is not known. It is known however, that in these small Iron 
Age tumuli in East Yorkshire, and in these alone, chariot 
remains and horse trappings occur buried with the dead. Of 
these chariots, and the havoc they wrought, there is abundant 
evidence in the early Roman records. And it is of some moment 
to bear in mind that this district — the land of the Parisi and 
the Brigantes — has yielded such positive proof of the former 
existence of this early method of warfare. 
The next milestone in our history is that of the Roman 
occupation. Filey was certainly visited in Roman times, but 
only, I think, to a small extent. I have not been able to find 
any evidence that it was a place of any size or importance ; 
at most it seems to have been a look-out station on the coast, 
or, possibly, as some have suggested, merely served the purpose 
of a lighthouse. 
Naturalist, 
