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(JEincravg SUvns antf Euccusc Cups> Stanton 



By John Ward. 



N March or April, last year, a large cinerary urn, 

 containing the usual quantujii of burnt bones, and, 

 in addition, a most interesting so-called incense cup, 

 was found on Stanton Moor in the Peak, by some 

 labourers in the process of quarrying. These vessels received 

 rough usage from their hands, and might have been altogether 

 lost or broken up were it not for the antiquarian zeal of a 

 neighbouring farmer, Mr. Joseph Heathcote, who speedily 

 rescued them, and in whose possession they now remain. 



The urn was slightly below the surface, and without any 

 protection, beyond that its mouth was covered with a thin piece 

 of flagstone, such as abounds on the moor. No mound marked 

 the spot, nor were there any traces of one. The urn (Fig. i.) is 

 a typical Bronze Age one, but is somewhat more straight-sided, or 

 flower-pot shaped, than is usual in this part of the country, 

 although the late Mr. Bateman (" Ten Years' Diggings ") had 

 precisely the same to say of several he found on this moor in 

 1852. It is fourteen inches high and ten inches across tlie 

 mouth. It is made of clay of an even texture, smooth, weli- 

 shaped, devoid of ornamentation, of a dull yellow-red colour, 

 and, as usual, is hand-moulded. It was more than half-full of 

 burnt bones, but contained no other object of interest beyond 

 the " incense cup," which rested upon the deposit. 



This pretty little vase is of similar, but finer clay, and is 



