. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. 364 YORKSHIRE. NORTH RIDING. kind of cover was a smaller one, which was reversed [fig. 147]. It is quite plain^ 3| in. hig-h, the same in width at the mouth, and 21 in. at the bottom, and has two ears on opposite sides, perforated, not as is usually the case with a horizontal piercing but vertically ^. The larger urn had been ornamented after a fashion which is not very common in such vessels, having had an encircling line form
. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. 364 YORKSHIRE. NORTH RIDING. kind of cover was a smaller one, which was reversed [fig. 147]. It is quite plain^ 3| in. hig-h, the same in width at the mouth, and 21 in. at the bottom, and has two ears on opposite sides, perforated, not as is usually the case with a horizontal piercing but vertically ^. The larger urn had been ornamented after a fashion which is not very common in such vessels, having had an encircling line formed by a series of wide loops [fig. 148]. Amongst the burnt bones was a single piece of calcined flint. On the east side of the space within the circle was another cinerary urn, like the first placed on the natural surface, and also filled with burnt bones. It was however so much decayed that neither shape, size, nor pattern of. Fig. 147. f ornamentation could be made out. Three feet east of the circle and 2 ft, above the natural surface was a single piece of pottery. Over the circle and the space included within it, the stones com- posing the mound were much burnt, and a considerable quantity of burnt earth was mixed with them. Upon the flooring of pebble- stones mentioned above, but not associated with the burnt bones, was a flat oval-shaped quartz pebble, If in. long and If in. wide; it is much bruised all round the edge, but more so at either end than elsewhere. It has been used for hammering, or more probably in the process of taking ofi" flakes of flint from the block. ^ Vessels possessing the same peculiarity of having the holes made vertically through a projection have been found in other places. At Broughton, in Hampshire, a vessel not very unlike this was met with associated with a deposit of burnt bones. Journ. of Arch. Inst., vol. ix. p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabilit
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