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upon the rim [fig. 59], and one from Rosebrough, Northumber- 

 land, has a series of figures in relief [fig. 60]. 



The larger cinerary urns contain in some instances, besides 

 the deposit of burnt bones, a second vessel. This is often of 

 the same form as the urn containing it, though of course it is 

 smaller ; but more frequently it is one of the so-called ' incense 

 cups.' When it is of the form of the larger cinerary urn, it is 



Fig. 59. *. 



generally reversed upon the bones. I have met with an instance 

 where such a smaller vessel, quite empty, was placed by the side 

 of the larger urn. When the contained vessel is an < incense 

 cup/ it is indifferently found upright, reversed, laid on the side, or 

 placed on the top of, or amongst, the bones. A very small urn 

 of precisely the same form and style of ornament as the cinerary 

 urn, in fact quite a miniature one, about 4 inches high [fig. 61], 



