. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. 348 YORKSHIRE. NORTH RIDING. The mound had been previously disturbed by a small opening having- been made about the middle, which had resulted in the discovery of the central interments. These—for there had prob- ably been more than one body buried—consisted of burnt bones which had been contained in, or associated with, four vessels of pottery. The burials had originally been made at the centre of the barrow, in a circular hol
. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. 348 YORKSHIRE. NORTH RIDING. The mound had been previously disturbed by a small opening having- been made about the middle, which had resulted in the discovery of the central interments. These—for there had prob- ably been more than one body buried—consisted of burnt bones which had been contained in, or associated with, four vessels of pottery. The burials had originally been made at the centre of the barrow, in a circular hollow 2 ft. in diameter and sunk 1ft. below the natural surface. At the bottom of this hollow there still remained the lower part of a cinerary urn which had not been removed by the first explorers, and immediately under it was a round flint scraper unburnt [fig*. 139]. The disturbed bones together with several fragments of the sepulchral vessels ^ had been re- placed in a hole made just below the surface of the barrow, a little south of the centre ; amongst the burnt bones were several pieces of calcined flint. Above the central deposit, and im- mediately beneath the surface of the mound, several stones had been placed ^ with some regularity of arrangement. Fifteen feet south-east-by-south of the centre and 2 ft. below the surface of the barrow was a cinerary urn, set upright and filled with the burnt bones of a small person of full age, probably a woman ; amongst them was a flint knife calcined, smaller but identical in shape with one found * Two of them have been large cinerary urns, the other two being smaller vessels. The first of the large urns has been a very fi^ne one, with an overhanging rim 3^ in. deep ornamented with five lines of short sharp-ended ovr\ impressions encircling the urn, whilst the inside of the lip has upon it a similar line of impressions nearly circular. Below the rim for a space of 3 in., as much as now remains, the urn has lines of impressions si
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