INCENSE CUPS. 79 



I met with in a barrow near Castle Howard [No. cxlviii], are 

 twenty-seven perforations, in sets of three,, arranged vertically and 

 at intervals over the whole 'cup.' A very similar vessel, so far 

 as the perforations are concerned, having four rows of small 

 holes encircling it, was found in a barrow with a deposit of 

 burnt bones at Hutton Cranswick, on the wolds 1 . 



One, discovered by Sir E. Colt Hoare in a barrow near Wodd- 

 yates, Dorsetshire, has the upper part overhanging, and through 

 the edge of this projecting rim (so to call it) the holes are 

 pierced vertically 2 . A vessel, not, however, possessing much 



Fig. 68. |. 



of the form of the ' incense cup/ though found with a deposit of 

 burnt bones inside a larger urn, with vertical perforations through 

 two slightly projecting ears, was met with in a barrow [No. cliv] 

 on Wykeham Moor, North Riding, and is figured in the sequel. 

 Vessels somewhat similar have occurred in Ireland. Some are of 

 very peculiar form ; for instance, three found by Sir R. Colt 

 Hoare in the Wiltshire barrows have a grape-like pattern in 

 relief upon them [fig. 68] 3 ; another, also met with by the 

 same explorer, has a division in the middle, by which it is 

 made into two cups, each provided with two perforations close 

 to the division, and therefore just above the bottom of each 



1 Proceedings of Yorkshire Antiquarian Club; it is engraved, Reliquiae Ant. 

 Eboracenses, by W. Bowman, p. 38. 



2 Ancient Wilts, pi. xxxiii. fig. 4. 



3 Figured in Ancient Wilts, pi. xi. p. 99; pi. xxiv. p. 199. Two similarly orna- 

 mented vessels, found near Ainesbury, in the same county, are engraved in the 

 Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute Meeting at Salisbury, p. 108, figs. 2, 3. 

 Another occurred at Priddy, in Somersetshire, and is now in the British Museum. 



