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at Rockley still more closely; for it is probable that the Deveril 

 barrow had a central intermeut at the base, which, through the 

 great diflficulty of the excavation, owing to the presence of the vast 

 quantities of flints, as described, was not at the time discovered. 

 If this were the case the urns would correspond in number and 

 position, as well as in their relation to the chief central interment, 

 with those in the Rockley barrow. 



Drinking Cup found at Imbee, Wilts. 



The drinking cup figured above was found by Mr. Cunnington 

 at Imber, Wilts. It seems worthy of more notice than it has re- 

 ceived in " Ancient Wiltshire '■* (vol. i., 86). 



Mr. Cunnington speaks of it as being so superior in colour and 

 quality, that many persons might even think it to be of Roman 

 make, but careful comparison would prove the contrary. " Borlase,'' 

 he says, " gives a drawing of a similar cup, in his * Antiquities of 

 Cornwall,' and erroneously supposes it to be Roman.''^ ' 



" It was crushed to pieces, but with some pains I have joined it 

 together so as to enable Mr. Crocker to make a water-colour drawing.^* 

 (From this the woodcut has been engraved.) 



The ornamentation is of the characteristic style of Ancient British 



* See Borlase's Ant. Com., PI. XVIII., Fig. 6. "From the neatness of tte 

 lace-work round the nm I should judge it to be Eoman." It was from a baiTow 

 at Chikam, Cornwall, in which fifty urns were found by the occupier of the land 

 round a central interment, but such was the want of intelligence at the time that 

 only one of them all — that engi-aved by Mr. Borlase — was preserved. 



