294 Pre-Histovic Man in Lincolnshire. 
inches in height and invariably found with burnt bones. It was 
probably used to carry sacred fire), Drinking Cups, Food Vessels, 
Cinerary Urns (3 to 8 inches high) or Urns used to hold the ashes 
of the body after cremation which was one of the methods of 
disposing of the dead in Neolithic times specially in the Bronze 
Period. 
This kind of pottery has been found at:— 
*Billinghay Kirton-in-Lindsey 
Caythorpe Lincoln 
Denton Manton 
Donington Normanton 
*Dunston *Potterhanworth 
Ferriby South ‘Scotter 
Heighington Willingham North 
Horncastle Woolsthorpe 
*Ingoldmells 
The pottery found with their interments is chiefly what may 
be called :— 
CEREMONIAL PoTTERY. 
It seems to have been made for the purpose of interment 
with the dead and is not what may be called Domestic Pottery. 
This ceremonial Pottery has been burnt in each case, it is all 
hand made, not shewing any sign of the wheel. Its chief 
decoration is by a line drawn by means of a cord across the 
pottery in different directions ; sometimes it is in the shape of 
herring-bone pattern and sometimes it is nearly straight lines. 
These decorations are called chevron, saltire, zigzag, reticulated. 
Its colour varies, ashen grey, yellowish, brown, dark brown 
and pale red brick. ‘The Incense Cup was probably used to carry 
the sacred fire to kindle the funeral pile. 
Fragments of Domestic Pottery are rarely found in the 
mounds, tumuli or barrows where the people of importance 
were buried. 
