\16 INTRODUCTION. 



It is quite impossible to give anything like a complete account 

 of the ornamental designs found upon them, for they are endless. 

 Amongst the most common are lines of short impressions, arranged 

 herring-bone fashion, and encompassing and covering the vessel; 

 lines drawn round the vessel, having between them dotted impres- 

 sions or short lines, usually sloping; zigzag lines,, with various 

 markings within them ; variously formed lines of impressions made 



Fig. 80. i. 



by a piece of bone or wood and giving a triangular or oval-shaped 

 mark. The ornamentation is sometimes confined to the upper part 

 of the vase, but more frequently it covers the whole, and is found on 

 the inside of the lip of the rim, and in rare instances on the bottom 

 of the vessel. The patterns have been made by thong or cord im- 

 pressions, by lines drawn with a pointed instrument, and by dotted 

 markings. In colour the vessels vary as much as those of the 

 other classes of sepulchral pottery. They are ashen-grey, yellowish 

 brown, straw-coloured, dark brown, and almost as red as pale 

 brick. 



The position they occupy relative to the body differs consider^ 



