VESSELS OF THE BARROWS NOT DOMESTIC. 107 



plain ware, without ornament of any kind, is in fact just what 

 we would expect domestic pottery to be, and has nothing in 

 which it resembles the sepulchral vessels. And more than this, 

 so far as I know of my own experience or can learn from that of 

 others, no whole vessel, or even fragments, of the ordinary sepul- 



Fig. 92. i. 



chral pottery of the barrows or other places of sepulture has ever 

 been met with in connection with places of habitation. A dis- 

 covery was made in the county of Durham which affords most 

 valuable evidence upon this point. A cave in the limestone 

 had been the habitation of a family, during the bronze age, 

 for a lengthened period, if we may judge from the large quantity 

 of animal bones, the remains of its food, found therein. These 



