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■one on eacli side of liim ; tliey and the nave were both, surrounded 
by an iron tire, and a horse had been laid between each of the 
wheels, their size not exceeding 13 hands, corresponding in this 
respect with other skeletons of the British horse, as well as the 
testimony of the ancients. The heads of two boars were found near 
the charioteer’s head. Portions of the harness were also found, 
composed of iron plated with copper coated with green. The dia¬ 
meter of the wheels, which was only 2 ft. 8 in., shows that the British 
chariot was of light construction, corresponding with the size of the 
horses. In the Hessleskew barrow, besides the wheels and horse 
trappings, a shield with bosses was found, and two boars’ tusks 
were placed on the body; the tine of a deer, polished and carved, 
had a pattern engraved on its thick end. The motive of burying 
arms with chariots and horses, along with deceased warriors, may 
be variously conceived. Yirgil (.^En. 6, 485) describes Idaeus, the 
charioteer of Priam, in the shades, as ‘ etiam currus, etiam arma 
tenentem’; and the same author says of the heroes in the Elysian 
Fields, ‘ Quae gratia curriim, Armorumque fuit vivis, quae cura 
nitentes Pascere equos, eadem sequitur tellure repostos.’ Probably 
in a rude state of society it may have been supposed that the objects 
placed beside a deceased person might really be of use to him in 
another world. Customs, especially religious customs, long survive 
the belief in which they originate, and therefore we cannot 
absolutely infer the existence of the belief from the continuance 
of the custom, which dwindles away at last into a mere symbol, 
like the arms placed on a soldier’s coffin, or the shooting of his 
charger. Doubts have been raised in regard to the remains of 
horse furniture found at Stanwick and Polden Hill, whether they 
might not have belonged to the Poman auxiliary cavalry. But 
neither at Stanwick, nor at Arras and Hessleskew has any trace 
of the Pomans been found, in coins or pottery, and as the German 
auxiliaries did not fight in chariots, it is clear these remains cannot 
have belonged to them. The similarity of the horse furnitui’e to 
that found in places of Poman sepulture, near the Phine, is easily 
explained by the supposition that the articles in question were 
imported from the continent. I have no doubt, therefore, that we 
have here the graves of Brigantian chiefs, but probably of the 
Poman times. In another barrow at Hessleskew, which was opened 
by Mr. Stillingfleet, was found a miniature bronze celt, no doubt 
worn as an ornament by the lady who had been interred there, as 
it has a pin connecting it with a blue glass bead. Only one other 
