DRINKING CUPS. 



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so elegant in form as those from Britain, have been discovered not 

 unfrequently in the sepulchral mounds \ 



There is a considerable difference in their size, and they vary 

 in height from 5 in. to 10 in. In shape they arrange themselves 

 into two principal forms, though there is a great general similarity 

 between the two. The one [fig. 81] is more flowing and easy in 

 outline, narrowing from the mouth to about the middle, then gra- 

 dually swelling, and then again narrowing towards the bottom ; 



Fig. 82. . 



the other form [fig. 82] is rounder than the last near to the bot- 

 tom, and from the upper part of this globular portion of the vessel 

 the sides widen towards the mouth without any curvature. 



There are other forms [figs. 83, 84, 85] which vary more or 

 less from these two, but which do not frequently occur. Some of 

 a very distinctive shape have been met with ; one of which, having 

 a handle, may be mentioned. I have only found one of this type 



1 There is a vessel in the British Museum, ornamented with a pattern of twisted- 

 thong impressions, very much like the ordinary British ' drinking cup.' It was found 

 at Bennedorf, near Merseberg. 



