168 Stonehenge and Us Barrows. 



the table-ware of pre-historic Britain. Rude as many of these latter 

 appear to us, they would be classed with the vessels for honourable 

 use in the households of the period. Though made for the living, 

 they were likewise habitually buried with the dead,and hence pass over 

 into our sepulchral class. These vessels Dr. Thurnam has found in 

 the form of bowls and jars, pans and pannikins, large pots often with 

 perforated ears, cooking pots, pipkins, with handles, small cups, and 

 strainers. Cinerary urns, or urns designed for the reception of burnt 

 bones, are of every size, from the capacity of less than a pint to 

 that of more than a bushel. Urns of nine or ten inches high 

 are medium sized, those from one foot to fifteen inches large, and 

 above this height exceptionally large, and very rare. The largest 

 Dr. Thurnam knew are two feet or very little more in height, of 

 which one from Wiltshire is in the Blackmore Museum. It was 

 exhumed at Bishopstone ; and measures 24| inches. The Stonehenge 

 urn, of which a wood engraving copied from that in Hoare^s " Tumuli 

 Wiltunenses," is given, is 22^ inches high, and 15 wide. 



Of the sixty-eight cases in which the burnt bones, as recorded by 

 Hoare, have been collected into urns, there were sixteen or nearly 

 one in four, accompanied by bronze objects j viz., eight by the blades 

 of knives or daggers, seven by awls, and one by both. 



Dr. Thurnam sub-divides cinerary urns into those 



a. With overhanging rim: 



b. With moulded rim. 



c. With border in place of rim. 



d. Barrel-shaped. 



€. Flower-pot shaped. >k .. , ,. , ,, 



-p n V A ■ ^ L ■^I'^o^t pecmiar to the 



,J, , , ' \ Dorsetshire barrows. 



ff. trlobular. y 



For examples of a. see " Ancient Wilts,'' vol. i., title page, and 

 plate viii., and No. 257 in the Stourhead collection. 



For example of b. see " Ancient Wilts,'' i., pi. xiii. ; pi. xvi. ; 

 pi. xxviii., fig. 1. 



For example of c. see " Wilts Archaeological Magazine," vi., 73. 

 These urns have sometimes handles. 



