CINERARY URNS. 



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has occurred with a deposit of burnt bones, but not containing any 

 of them, and placed above or amongst them. Several of these were 

 found by me in a group of barrows at Enthorpe, near Goodmanham. 

 I have met with three instances of a vessel like a cinerary urn in 

 form accompanying an unburnt body ; they were all of compara- 



Fig.60. *. 



tively small size. In the Orkney Islands vessels of stone have been 

 found answering the purpose of cinerary urns. 



There has occasionally been found on the inside of the cinerary 

 urns a deposit, sometimes of considerable thickness, of black- 

 coloured carbonaceous matter. It has the appearance as if a flame, 

 sending forth a large proportion of smoke, had been burning 

 within the vessel for a lengthened period. It is very difficult 



