20 BARROW-DIGGING AT MARTINSTOWN. 



This type of vessel was classed under the head of " Culinary 

 Pottery" by Dr. John Thurnam in his famous paper on "Ancient 

 British Barrows " in the forty-third volume of " Archaeologia." 

 He describes pots belonging to this type as being " plain, semi- 

 globular vessels, with bowed handles (one handle), holding 

 about a pint, resembling the common vessels known as pipkins." 

 He figures one in PI. 29, Fig. 10, from a barrow at Collingburn 

 Ducis (Devizes Museum). A one-handled vessel, with four feet, 

 was found by Sir R. Colt Hoare in a barrow at Woodyates.* 

 With regard to these examples, Thurnam says: "Both were with 

 unburnt bodies and seem to have taken the place of more 

 befitting drinking-cups or food-vessels." f 



The same applies to the somewhat larger pipkin found by the 

 Rev. J. H. Austen in a barrow on Ballard Down, near Ulwell, in 

 the Isle of Purbeck, 1856 or 1857. 



Amongst the small handled cups must be mentioned one from 

 Wereham, Norfolk, 4 inches high, and now in the Cambridge 

 Museum. The British Museum possesses a handled cup from 

 Denzell, Cornwall ; height, 3! inches. J A one-handled cup, 

 5f inches high, of quite a different type to our Martinstown 

 specimen, was found in a cist at Balmuick, near Comrie, 

 Perthshire, and is in the possession of Colonel Williamson, of 

 Lawers. 



The Dorset County Museum (No. C&4) also contains another 

 interesting one-handled vessel of the Bronze Age, found with 

 a human skeleton in a circular cist 3 feet in diameter, and 

 3i feet from the surface, at Wynford Eagle. || It is of tankard 

 shape, about 5f inches in height, with perfectly vertical sides, 

 and with one bowed handle projecting from the middle of the 

 side. A series of pottery vessels with single and double handles 

 from German barrows is exhibited in the British Museum. 



* Ancient Wiltshire, Vol. I., p. 237, PI. 33, Fig. 2. 

 t Purbeck Papers, I., 159, Fig. 2. Warne's Celtic Tumuli, III., 71. 



J Figured in The Connoisseur, Vol. IX., p. 186. 



Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotland, XVIII., 307, and Anderson's Scotland in Pagan 

 Times (Bronze and Stone Ages), Fig. 97. 



|| Warne's Celtic Tumuli, p. 36. 



