The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

THE BASIN OF THE HUMBER. 235
their way into the sea, the hills rise once more to the north of the estuary of the
Humber, and, trending round to the eastward, terminate in the bold i^romontory
of Flamborough Head. To the north lie the wild and barren York Wolds,
whose northern face is known as the Cleveland Hills. They are composed of
liassic strata capped by oolitic rocks, and abound in picturesque scenery, and from
their culminating summits afford at once a view of the distant vale of the Tees and
of the sea studded with vessels. Here and there the more prominent heights are
crowned with funereal mounds, locally known as koues* and every position of
strategical importance is defended by vast entrenchments. These entrenchments
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The Mouth of the Humber and Part of Holderness.
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can still be traced for miles, and they converted the valley of the Derwent, at the
back of Scarborough, as well as the whole of the peninsula which is bounded by
the Humber in the south, into vast camps. The entrenchment near Scarborough
is still known as the Dane's Di/kc. Some of the barrows, or fioues, on the Cleveland
HiUs are as much as 200 feet in length, of quadrangular shape, and placed due east
and -west. Skulls and flint and bronze implements have been fovmd in them,
and prove that they do not all belong to the same epoch. RoUeston, the
archseologist, is of opinion that some of the skulls resemble those of the Veddahs
of Ceylon.
* Hog, in Old Swedish or Jutic ; hoi in Danish.