ABSTRACT
No causewayed camps are known in Yorkshire, but long ditch-like pit-dwellings, recalling those of the Trundle, have in two cases been found, burnt out and buried full of bones and charred matter under what are evidently sepulchral mounds or barrows. Here, in fact, at Hanging Grimston and Kemp Howe, we seem to have the Michelsberg rite of destroying a dead man’s hut to serve as his tomb (p. 138), compounded with the Belgian habit of mound-cremation. But under another such mound at Garton Slack (where the burning had been done in a specially made crematoriumtrench instead of a real dwelling), there were also inhumed burials, and the co-existence of the two rites well suits the mixed Belgian and South British origin we have suggested for the Yorkshire Neolithic settlers. For inhumed burials have been several times found in the Neolithic A settlements of South Britain, and the long-skulled skeletons in both regions agree in recalling the ‘ Mediterranean’ type already associated with our culture abroad. And if such casual settlement-burials-there are even hints of cannibalism-were originally typical of the South British settlers, they had by the time now trader notice adopted, for their most honoured dead, a form of ceremonial interment under barrows of which the mounds of Yorkshire are simply a distant reflexion. For, as is well known, the typical Neolithic tomb-form in Britain is the Long Barrow.
