A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fiij. 31.—Cinerary urn, (loodmanhiini,E. R. Yorks. 3 60 DESCRIPTION OF CASES 31-30 skull. The jet ring (fig. 36) was also found resting on a l^utton ofthe same kind at Thwing, East Riding of Yorkshire, on the right armof a skeleton (lx. Case 23). Ornamented bone beads or buttonsof another shape (fig. 37) are remarkably like those from Lake,Wilts. (Case F), which, however, are not perforated. The threewith ornament lay at the right elbow of a young womans skeleton atFolkton, East Eiding of Yorks
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fiij. 31.—Cinerary urn, (loodmanhiini,E. R. Yorks. 3 60 DESCRIPTION OF CASES 31-30 skull. The jet ring (fig. 36) was also found resting on a l^utton ofthe same kind at Thwing, East Riding of Yorkshire, on the right armof a skeleton (lx. Case 23). Ornamented bone beads or buttonsof another shape (fig. 37) are remarkably like those from Lake,Wilts. (Case F), which, however, are not perforated. The threewith ornament lay at the right elbow of a young womans skeleton atFolkton, East Eiding of Yorkshire (lxxi. Case 28), while a plain onewas found, with a bronze drill or awl, below the hips. The numlser. Fig. 32.—CiiKiary urn, Ovingliani, Northumberland. J is the same as at Lake, and the cruciform patterns in both caseswere produced by burning the .surface with a sharp-pointed in-strument. A barrow at Aklbourne, Wilts., contained an exceptionalnumber of articles (in boxes below Case 21), which may bedescribed in some detail as typical of the Round barrows mound was 90 ft. in diameter, and at the time of opening-was still 6 ft. in height, though much ploughed down. It wascomposed of earth with some chalk and sarsen-stones, and con-tained at the centre a pile of sarsen-stones which had been ROUND BARROWS 61 exposed to fire. This cairn was 28 ft. in diameter and 5 Beneath it was a space from which the turf on the originalsurface level had been removed down to the chalk rock, and inthe grave thus formed from north to south was a deposit of burntbones underlaid with wood and covered by a layer of charcoal and
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