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Martinstown Barrows, corresponding, as we said before, with 

 the No. 2 British pottery of Pitt-Rivers. 



A somewhat similar and very large urn, with overhanging rim, 

 was found by General Pitt-Rivers in Barrow 24, Handley Hill, 

 North Dorset. It was also inverted, and was one (No. 42) of no 

 less than 52 cremated interments connected with one barrow.* 

 With this Handley cremation one of the very rare bone tweezers 

 was found.f of which only two or three specimens are known 

 from Dorset. 



This type of cinerary urn is figured by Thurnam in 

 Archaeologia f from a barrow on Beacon Hill, Mendip ; height, 

 i6i inches. A similar urn was found inverted over an interment 

 of burnt bones in a small barrow on Lamb Down, Codford, 

 Wilts; it is 16^ inches in height. Another was found by 

 Sir R. C. Hoare at Durrington, Barrow 69 ; height, 13^ inches. || 

 Another of similar form was found by Hoare at Woodyates,^[ 

 Barrow 17; height, 18^ inches. Numerous other instances of 

 this type of urn could be cited, but those quoted are sufficient 

 for the purpose. 



There are at least three examples of cinerary urns of the type 

 of that under consideration, with overhanging rims, in the 

 Dorset County Museum. No. C8o is an unornamented 

 specimen of this class, height about 15^ inches, found many 

 years ago in a barrow formerly standing behind Sidney Terrace, 

 Dorchester. Two bronze daggers were found in this barrow 

 when it was destroyed in 1885. Another of "this class is 

 represented by Cy8, about 16^ inches in height, found with a 

 cremated interment at Winterborne Abbas. A third and smaller 



* Excavations in Cranborne Chase, Vol. IV., Plate 301, Fig. 6. 

 t Op. cit., Vol. IV., Plate 298, Fig. 7. 

 J Vol. XLIIL, Plate xxx., Fig. 1. 

 Figured in "Catalogue of Antiquities in Devizes Museum" (Wilts Arch. 

 Soc.), Part I., the Stourhead Collection, 1896, p. 64. 



|| Op. cit., p. 47. 

 IT Op. cit., p. 66 ; also Archseologia, Vol. XLIIL, p. 346. 



