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lines of thong-impressions upon the body of the vessel immediately 

 below the rim. It cannot be doubted that there was some kind of 

 connection between this and the larger urn with its sepulchral 

 contents ; it is however difficult to say what office the smaller 

 vessel fulfilled ; although most probably, whatever may have caused 

 a small urn to be placed with the burnt bones inside a larger one 

 or with a simple deposit of burnt bones in a barrow, the same 

 object was aimed at by the second and smaller urn in this case. 

 At a distance of half-a-foot east of the flat stone was placed another 

 cinerary urn, also in an upright position. It was filled with burnt 

 bones, amongst which was found a very rudely made and perfectly 

 plain ' incense cup' [fig. 155] of globular shape, 2 in. high and 

 2| in. wide. The cinerary urn is of very coarse make and form, 





Fig. 155. 



of the type of fig. 54, 9J in. high, 7 in. wide at the mouth, and 

 3 J in. at the bottom ; it has an overhanging rim If in. deep, which 

 is roughly ornamented with alternate series of vertical and 

 horizontal lines of twisted-thong impressions. Some inches north 

 of this was another cinerary urn, so much decayed that only a few 

 portions remained at all entire. The overhanging rim, 1 J^ in. deep, 

 is covered with a reticulated pattern of impressions of twisted- 

 thong ; and the body of the urn below the rim is marked ir- 

 regularly with scattered oval indentations. From the decayed 

 condition of this and the broken state of the last urn, and from 

 their close contiguity, it is impossible to say whether each had 

 contained the remains of a burnt body, or that the one had been 

 placed alongside the other as in a former instance. It is more 

 probable however that each had once held the bones of a 

 burnt body. As has been before stated, all these interments had 

 been made in an oblong hollow, sunk 16 in. below the natural 



