10 Notes on the Opening of a Bronze Age Barroio at Manton. 



No. 15. This small rude cup-like vase should perhaps be classed 

 as belonging to the type known as " incense cups." It is decorated 

 with a series of small oblong punctures in would-be vertical rows, 

 the rows are fairly straight at first, but the artist seems soon to have 

 got into difficulties, and the lines become increasingly slanting until 

 they are at such an angle that they never reach the bottom at all, 

 and are allowed half-way down the side to merge into the other 

 lines. The more perfect portion of the rim is J of an inch in width, 

 and has been decorated with a chevron pattern of lines drawn 

 from edge to edge ; the triangular spaces between the lines have 

 punctured dots in them, and these dots and lines appear to have 

 been filled in with some white stuff as if for the purpose of making 

 the pattern stand out more clearly. Canon G-reenwell mentions a 

 somewhat similar case, where a pattern seems to have been em- 

 phasised by means of a white substance filling in the lines on an 

 incense cup from a barrow at Aldbourne, AVilts.^ One half of the 

 cup is much more crumbly and decayed than the other ; from this 

 part the white filling is absent and the edges are blackened as if 

 it had been in a fire, and more affected by it on one side than the 

 other. It would seem that the crudeness of the ornamentation 

 could only have been the result of sheer carelessness, or of an in- 

 telligence and skill equal to that of a child. 



No. 16. Piece of clay showing impressed pattern of cloth. 

 No. 17. Nine feet almost due south of the skeleton and 1ft. 2in. 

 below the present surface, a vessel of the cinerary urn type was 

 disclosed. It had been crushed into several pieces by the weight 

 of the earth above, and was also slightly damaged by the workman's 

 pick ; it has, however, been repaired and is now complete. It 

 stood in an upright position, but with no signs of ashes or of burnt 

 material of any sort inside it, nor was there any sign of an in- 

 terment, burnt or unburnt, near it.- Immediately beneath it the 



' Archaoloffia, LII., p. 53. The same peculiarity may be seen on a 

 drinking cup from Roundway Down, in the Museum at Devizes. 



- Canon Greenwell says : " In a few instances a sepulchral vase has 

 occurred in a barrow not in close proximity with any interment," British 

 Barrows, p. 61. 



