THE DANES’ GRAVES.” 
In a previous paper on these mounds,* I explained how 
very important it was that a further examination should be 
made at the first possible opportunity. I also stated my 
disappointment at not having been able to obtain permission 
to open them. 
However, it is said “ Everything comes to him who waits,” 
and such has happened in this case. 
Through the obliging intercession of J. Travis-Cook, Esq., 
F.R.H.S., the kind permission of Harrison Broadley, Esq., the 
present owner of the estate, has been obtained. I was 
therefore enabled during the first ten days of July, 1897, with 
the assistance of the Rev. Canon Greenwell of Durham, and 
Thos. Boynton, Esq., of Bridlington Quay, to make an explora¬ 
tion of sixteen of this group of barrows, for the inspection of the 
members of the East Riding Antiquarian Society. Most of 
these mounds are situated near the western corner of “ Danes’ 
Graves ” wood, in that portion which belongs to the parish of 
Driffield. 1 At this place the mounds, which were arranged, 
roughly, in lines, appeared to have been the least disturbed by 
previous explorers. 
No. 1.—The first mound opened was 13 feet in diameter and 
18 inches in height. Under it was an oval grave measuring 
7 feet north and south, by 5J feet east and west, and 20 inches 
in depth. At the bottom lay the body of an adult of middle 
age, laid on the chest and face, the head to the north; the 
legs were much drawn up and pressed close to the right side ; 
the right arm was doubled in with the hand under the face ; 
the left arm was laid over the body, with the hand under the 
right elbow. At the right side of the head lay portions 2 of a 
* Read at Driffield. 
1 In this corner the parishes of Driffield, Nafferton and Kilham join. (Plate II ) 
2 Pottery has seldom been found in these graves, and when present the vessel 
is nearly always incomplete. 
