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URNS. FOOD VASES. "INCENSE CUPS.' 



FIG. 160. 



they are often left plain. They are often pierced. " Incense 

 cups" have been found throughout Great Britain, and also in 



Ireland. Their use seems to me 

 still very doubtful. They have 

 in several cases been found with 

 bronze. " The third division 

 includes vessels of every style 

 of ornament, from the rudest to 

 the most elaborate, but nearly 

 alike in size, and more difficult 

 to assign to a determinate period 

 than any other, from the fact 

 of a coarse and a well-finished 

 one having several times been 

 found in company." The above 

 wood-cuts (figs. 158,159) repre- 

 sent two vessels found in a 

 barrow on the circle at Arbor 

 Low, in Derbyshire. 

 Fourthly, "The drinking cups (fig. 160) are generally from 

 six and a half to nine inches high, of a tall shape, contracted 

 in the middle, globular below, and expanding at the mouth : 

 they are carefully formed by hand, of fine clay, tempered 

 with sharp sand, and well -baked; the walls are thin, ave- 

 raging about three -eighth of an inch, light brown outside 

 and grey within." They have not yet been found in Ireland. 

 They are generally much ornamented, and usually accompany 

 well-made flint implements and unburnt bodies. Mr. Bate- 

 man considered that the greater number belong to the ante- 

 metallic period, but they have so often been found in associa- 

 tion with bronze, that I think we may safely refer them to 

 the Bronze Age. 



The Domestic Pottery of the period is not so well known 

 to us, but some has been found in caves, and on the site of 



Drinking Cup. 



