. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. 228 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. button is very beautifully ornamented with a cross pattern \ formed by delieately-eng-raved lines, and is very similar to one found, to- gether with a ring, in a barrow at Rudstone [No. Ixviii]. The rins- is also engraved with lines over the entire surface, and has two perforations in the side, similar to that at the back of the button, as shown in the section. The supposed use of these rings, which
. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. 228 YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. button is very beautifully ornamented with a cross pattern \ formed by delieately-eng-raved lines, and is very similar to one found, to- gether with a ring, in a barrow at Rudstone [No. Ixviii]. The rins- is also engraved with lines over the entire surface, and has two perforations in the side, similar to that at the back of the button, as shown in the section. The supposed use of these rings, which have been found in Wiltshire and Derbyshire as well as on the wolds, will be found discussed a little further on in the account of the Rudstone barrow. Near the feet of the body were numerous fragments of a 'drinking cup/ which did not however seem to have been deposited with this interment, but with an earlier one, disturbed in the process of inserting the body now under notice; many pieces of the same vessel were met w^th in various parts of the grave. About 8 in. beneath the body was a great quantity of charcoal. No undisturbed skeleton lay at the bottom of the grave; but part of a skull, two femurs, two tibias, and several other bones showed that a former occupant had been displaced, and most pro- bably when the body above noticed was buried. It is strange indeed that the disturbance should have been extended to the very bottom of the grave, when the inserted body had been placed fully 3 ft. above that level, and that the bottom of the grave having been reached, the secondary interment should not have been made there. There cannot however be any doubt about the fact that the bones met with at the bottom were not in their natural position, for they were broken and scattered at wide in- tervals. In the grave, and not far from the bottom, were three small and very beautifully-made barbed arrow-points of flint [fig. 117], which very possibly had been associated with the primary
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