FOOD VESSELS. 



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cii, ciii], which had evidently been made by the same workman, 

 where in one case the ears were pierced, in the other being- left un- 

 pierced. The holes, however, are so small in some of them, that it 

 would be very difficult to pass a thong through them. Many of 

 this type are very well and symmetrically made, and the ornament 

 also is applied with much taste ; and they may be said to excel in 

 fineness of paste, care in manufacture, and beauty of ornament any 

 * food vessels ' of the other types which are found upon the wolds 



Fig. 72. i. 



and in other parts of Yorkshire. In Northumberland, however, and 

 in the south-west of Scotland, a class of ' food vessel,' rather bowl- 

 shaped in form and without ears, being very similar to many of 

 the Irish specimens, is perhaps still more beautifully, as it is 

 certainly more elaborately, ornamented. Another common type in 

 the wold barrows, and more frequently found there than in other 

 parts of England, is one which approaches somewhat to the globular 

 shape, though it is higher than it is wide [fig. 72]. It is made 

 of coarser clay, and is less skilfully manufactured than the last- 

 mentioned class ; the ornamentation also is not so carefully designed, 



