There used to be exhibited in the Abbey Church of Westminster, distinct from the later and better known “Waxworks,” a remarkable series of figures of deceased royal and noble personages, that came to be known as “the Ragged Regiment,” from the condition to which most of them had been reduced by course of time.

The primary purpose of this paper is to give an account of the investigation of a cemetery in the Bast Riding of Yorkshire, which has been carried out during the last few years. That purpose has been extended so as to make it include what has resulted from an examination of other, though similar, places of burial in the same district. Before, however, any description is given of what has been discovered by the various examinations of these burial sites, something by way of introduction seems to be required, and this it is here sought to supply.

The accompanying illustrations (Plates LXIX. and LXX.) were recently taken from a war balloon by Lieut. P. H. Sharpe, R.E., and represent Stonehenge from a point of view from which that famous monument has probably never before been photographed.