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A Summary of What is Known of the so-called “ Danes’ Graves,” near Driffield

1897/01/01 by J. R. Mortimer · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies #Digging #Archaeology #Geography #Ancient history #History

paper · doi:10.1144/pygs.13.3.286

openalex publication_date 1897/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02

Abstract

described in Part 2, later on.-J.R.M. t Probably some of these may yet be in existence.* This is also a mode of burial occasionally observed in the more ancient British tumuli.f More probably not.-J.R..M. J This might be No. 13 of the mounds opened in July, 1897, and the one in which the Chariot was found.-J.R.M. * Before the Wolds were enclosed a great many more existed ; it is stated that there were, originally, as many as 500.* Of five bodies discovered, when the examination by the Yorkshire Antiquarian Club took place, two had been laid upon the face.t See Canon GreenwelPs paper in the Archaeological Journal, vol.xxii.£ In a barrow six miles north of Pickering was a cist, in which was found a skeleton, where, along with several flints, was deposited near the head of the man a head of a goat.Bateman's "Ten Years," Diggings, p. 223.At

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