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head was a third [fig. 81]. These vessels, as will be seen from 

 the figures, are very fine and varied specimens of the class to 

 which they belong. They differ amongst themselves not only in 

 their form and ornamentation, but also in the quality of the paste ; 

 that found close to the woman being much harder and more friable 

 than the other two,, which appears to be duo to the large quantity 

 of sand mixed with the clay, and which gives quite a gritty feeling 

 to the pottery. 



The two bodies found at the bottom of the grave can scarcely be 



Fig. 133. . 



regarded as other than those of a mother and child, the former 

 of whom appears to have died first; the grave being afterwards 

 opened and her bones partly displaced to insert close by her the 

 body of the child. The third ' drinking cup ' was not intimately 

 associated with either of the bodies, though it was probably con- 

 nected with that of the woman; instances have been met with 

 in other barrows where more than one sepulchral vessel has been 

 found accompanying a single burial 1 . The ornamentation upon 



1 It may suffice to mention one instance -in illustration of this fact. In a cist with 

 the skeleton of a girl about nine years old, found at North Sunderland, Northumber- 

 land, three ' drinking cups' were discovered. Trans, of Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club, vol. iv. p. 428. pi. xiii. 



