30 BARROW-DIGGING AT MAR.TINSTOWK. 



"The grass stem I judge by the occasionally very well 

 preserved epidermis with characteristic cells and stomata. 

 Moreover, the woody parts are sufficiently present to lend 

 confirmatory evidence. 



" I cannot say to what species it belonged. 



" I think I may quite definitely say that none of the material 

 contained flax. I examined several samples, both of the 

 twisted bit and of the loose fragments, and all of them 

 were alike. There were no long strands such as would suggest 

 flax. 



" The fact that the outside skin (epidermis) of the tissue was 

 preserved is strongly against the possibility of flax being che 

 substance used, as this would have been eliminated in the netting 

 processes." 



The urn, the base of which was at a depth of only i '4 foot 

 from the surface, was found in a much shattered condition. 

 The fragments numbered about 150, and were for the most 

 part in their proper positions. It has now been carefully 

 restored, * and presents a very imposing appearance. It is 

 far above the usual size of a British cinerary urn, averaging 

 15 inches in height f; exterior diameter at rim averages 

 ijf inches; interior diameter, 13^- inches; circumference at 

 most prominent part below shoulder, 43^- inches ; diameter at 

 base, 6| inches ; average width of the overhanging rim, 3$ inches. 

 There is nothing unusual about the ornamentation, and the 

 photograph (Plate VIII.) is so excellent that it needs no 

 description. The ornamentation on the inside of the top of the 

 rim cannot, however, be seen. The rim contracts and slopes 

 inwards to a projecting ridge which is decorated with two 

 parallel bands of impressed cord ornament ; this is quite usual 

 with this type of urn. The pottery is of a dark brown colour, 

 and contains no grains of quartz or other grains, and in this 

 respect resembles all the other pottery found in these 



* Restored by Mr. C. S. Prideaux. 

 t Greatest height, 15fin. ; least height, 13Jin. 



