CALLED CASTLE HILL. 345 
which was very soft and flexible, when the frag- 
ment was first found; but, which soon became 
hard by exposure to the air. It had been made 
on a potter’s wheel ; for, there were exactly cir- 
cular marks on its surface. It did not seem to 
have been baked in an oven; but, its surface 
seemed blackened, and discoloured by fire. It 
had not been broken lately; for, the edges of the 
fracture were dull and discoloured. It seemed 
to have been part of an urn, whose diameter was 
about eight inches. This piece of pottery is in 
the possession of the Rev. Peter Legh. 
As the first burials, in this hill, were made 
under a rude arch of clay ; and, as this piece of 
pottery seems to have been a fragment of a 
funeral urn, made of fine clay, and highly finished, 
in an advanced state of the arts, on a potter’s 
wheel; there must have been a long interval 
between the time, when the original deposit was 
made in the chamber, and the time, when this urn 
was made. And, from this it appears, that 
Castle hill had been a place of interment, for 
persons of distinction, for along period. And, 
as only a fragment of this urn was found, it is 
evident, that a part of the barrow had been pre- 
viously explored. 
