WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE 
‘“MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS.’—Ovid. 
A Comparison of to remarkable Wens in the 
Stourhead Collection at Devizes. 
- By W. Connineton, F.GS. 
6HE most notable vessel in this fine collection is the urn from 
© Long Crendon, of which an illustration is herewith given. 
The only record of it is a label, in Sir Richard Colt Hoare’s own 
handwriting, “ Found at Crendon, Co. Bucks,’ which, when the 
collection came into the possession of the Trustees of the Wilts 
Society, was rolled up and carefully passed through one of the loops. 
The Rev. F, E. Ogden, Vicar of Long Crendon, has kindly made 
enquiries in that neighbourhood respecting it, but without obtaining 
any further information, and he doubts whether any reliable’account 
of it will be forthcoming. The urn is unusually well made. It is 
symmetrical in form, and its general appearance is altogether so 
unlike any other British specimen, that some able antiquaries have 
hesitated to accept it as belonging to this country ; one of the highest 
authorities considering that it rather suggested the idea of an 
American-Indian type of vessel.! The difficulty has, however, we 
venture to think, been removed by a comparison lately made between 
it and an undoubted Ancient British vessel found by Sir Richard 
Colt Hoare in one of his earliest excavations at Kingston Deverill, 
in South Wilts. By the aid of the photo-print illustrations we may 
give a description which will show the peculiar relations of the tsvo 
vessels, and we may safely conclude that the Crendon urn is, or at 
least may be, of Ancient British manufacture. The Crendon urn 
would at first sight appear to consist of two bulb-shaped vessels, one 
1In the recently-published report of the Canadian Institute, printed by order 
of the Legislative Assembly, Toronto, there is an engraving of a portion of a 
round-bottomed urn, which in general form is remarkably similar to our urn from 
Kingston Deverill. 
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