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For example of d. see " Ancient Wilts/' i., pi. xvi., " The Stohe- 

 henge urn/' and woodcut of it on opposite page. 



For an example of e. see Thurnam's " Ancient British Barrows/' 

 Archseologiaj xliii., plate xxx., fig. 7. 



For an example of f. see Thurnam's " British Barrows/' plate 

 XXX., fig. 8. 



For an example of g. see Thurnam's British Barrows/' plate xxx., 

 fig. 9. 



Incense cups. " The small fictile vessels^ first named ' Incense 

 Cups/ by Hoare — a name which, for the present at least, it is ex- 

 pedient to retain — are a rather frequent accompaniment of interments 

 after cremation : about one in eleven of those in the barrows of 

 Wiltshire being so accompanied. Sir Richard registers the discovery 

 of twenty-six, twenty-four of which are in the museum at Stourhead, 

 and twelve figured in vol. i. of Ancient Wilts, Of the whole num- 

 ber four were inclosed with the burnt bones in cinerary urns ; the 

 remainder with deposits of the same description in shallow graves, 

 or on the floor of the barrows." Dr. Thurnam distinguishes them as 

 follows : — 



I. The simple cup, in which the sides deviate but slightly from 

 the perpendicular. 



II. The contracted cup, in which the sides are bevelled in to- 

 wards a narrow mouth and base. 



III. The expanded cup, in which the upper part spreads out into 

 a widely-dilated mouth. 



The more important varieties of the incense cup are these : — 



a. The nodulated cup. d. The basket cup. 



b. The compressed cup. e. The slashed cup. 



c. The handled cup. f. The strainer cup. 



All these types and varieties are found in the barrows of Wiltshire, 

 and two are almost peculiar to them. Of the nodulated cups seven 

 are knowna. Three are described by Hoare (i., pi. xi., pi. xxiv.) ; 

 two from barrows near Abury are described by Dean Merewether 

 (Proc. Arch. Inst., Salisbury, pp. 93, 108, fig. 2, 3); and another is 

 in the Bristol Museum, having been found in a barrow at Priddy, 



