FOOD VESSELS. 



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perforated, and at other times without any piercing 1 . Those with 

 pierced ears must, I think, be regarded as the earlier, the object of 

 the piercing being to allow a thong or cord to be passed through 



Fig. 70. . 



1 One of this type, having the rare peculiarity of two series of pierced ears, one 

 ahove the other, the ears heing placed alternately, was found in a harrow on Seamer 

 Moor, in the North Riding. It is figured in the Journal of the British Archaeological 

 Association, vol. iv. p. 102. 



