318 A Comparison of two remarkable Urns in the 
fixed on the top of the other; on closer examination, however, it is 
seen that the upper portion was formed as a continuation of, and at 
the same time as, the lower part. This is proved by the fact that the 
vertical tool-marks which are a prominent feature on the exterior 
were wrought in parallel lines and carried continuously from top to 
bottom before the ornamental cord-like moulding was made ; this 
moulding was evidently formed by pushing out the clay from within, 
while the fingers, held on the outside, produced the smooth surface, 
as seen in the illustration. The ornamentation of the corded pattern was 
then wrought by impressing on the yet soft clay a twisted thong, 
apparently of skin or similar tissue, in a regular diagonal direction. 
The appendages attached to the edge of the vessel and to the 
upper part of the lower section are a striking peculiarity. They 
consist, in each case, of two loops and two triangular hooks—the 
hooks are placed at right angles to the loops, and the loops and hooks 
in the lower set are at right angles to those on the top edge. 
A very simple but very effective ornament, consisting of a row of 
impressed marks, passes round each of the bulbous parts of the urn. 
They were apparently madeby pressing a stick, cut at the end to an ob- 
long square,on the surface of the clay whilststill moist. There are forty- 
one of these marks in the upper and forty-eight in the lower row. 
The urn does not appear to have been very perfectly burnt, some 
parts of it being of a light grey tint, but it is generally much 
blackened by smoke. 
We proceed further to note the unique vessel which was amongst 
Sir, R. C. Hoare’s earliest discoveries. It is from a barrow ona 
large tract of wild and uncultivated ground called Blackheath 
(Ancient Wilts, I., 45), in the parish of Kingston Deverill, in South 
Wilts, of which he says :— We found an interment of burnt bones 
within a rude urn.” To this he adds the following note :—“ Some 
singularity occurred in the formation of this cist, and in the shape 
of the sepulchral urn, which was like a bowl. In the usual for- 
mation of cists a cavity was made in the chalk, in which the burnt 
bones were deposited, and over them the urn inverted; but in this 
instance the cist was not excavated, but a projection or knob of solid 
chalk was left to receive the inverted urn, and the bones were placed 
