260 Some TJn-I) escribed Articles in the Stourhead Collection. 



drinking cups, but in form it was much more elegant. It was 

 probably too much injured to bear the casualties of seventy years, 

 and there is not even a fragment of it in the present Stourhead 

 Collection. 



Funereal Urn from Durrington, Wilts, found bt 

 Mr. Cunnington, November, 1803. 



The above engraving represents a fine Ancient British urn, be- 

 longing to the Stourhead Collection, which has hitherto been un- 

 described. It is not mentioned in " Ancient Wiltshire," nor indeed 

 had it any label or other means of identification attached to it. 

 But for the fortunate circumstances that Mr. Crocker's drawing and 

 a MS. account of it are preserved, in Miss Cunnington's possession, 

 its history would have been altogether lost. 



It was found in a barrow on the edge of Durrington Down, in 

 November, 1803. 



This barrow is No. 69 in the " Map of the Environs of Stone- 

 henge," "Ancient Wilts," p. 170, and is mentioned in "Tumuli 

 Wiltunenses," p. 37, as having been opened by Mr. Cunnington " at 

 a prior period." His MS. note is as follows: — "The barrow was 

 40ft. in diameter, and not more than l8iu. in elevation ; in it 

 we found, in a neat cist, cut in the solid chalk, a fine urn (see 



