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ANCIENT BRITISH SKULL.
EEOM BAREOW AT AEEAS, E. K. TOEKSHIEE.
(UEGION 01- THE PAEISII, TEMP. PT0LEMJ3I, A.D. 120.)
Cranium from Barrow at Arras.—Quarter-size.
In the years 1816 and 1817, a group of thickly-scattered barrows, on the high ground of the
south-western promontory of the Torkshii-e Wolds, three miles to the east of Market Weighton
was explored by the Eey. E. W. StiUingfleet, the present Vicar of South Caye, and other
gent emen The barrows, many of which have since been leveUed, occupied a space of ground
ne^ly half a mJe in length from N.W. to S.E., and about a quarter of a mUe in width, from
. 1 . ; They were about ninety in munber, of which fifty-five were to the north of the
road leadmg from York to Beverley, on a farm named Arras, and the remainder to the south of
i ^ r i d " , n ' / r Hessleskew. Beyond the baz-rows, in different directions, are
smgle and doubk dakes,-ea..th-works such as the British tribes on the Wolds of Yorkshire,
as m other districts frequently thi-ew up as boundaries of their- settlements, cemeteries and
e t X ; slT" -r e for the most part ^f smaU siz aM
^ Z i l Z r f ' " ' ' least, it was
in a t ^ t l t T L ' r " ' - ^ in the.halk,
O r ; ! " - - -P^^o- having the head to the north!
-raves but nn nni. ^ fo™«! several of the
plain or vaa-iousirn ! f ^ fore-arm were encircled by bronze bracelets, weH made, and
s ^^ - different way ; in
at the p l l t t y ^ ^ ¡ T l ^^ ^^
was an ornament of the , • f ^here
rnament of the same description round the bones of the leg (fig. 5) : and in another,
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