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pieces of calcined flint, which had been parts of one or more imple- 

 ments. Five feet east-by-south of the centre was a small vessel of 

 pottery, placed upright on the natural surface, having a considerable 

 quantity of charcoal about it and a few pieces within it. Between 

 this vessel and the hole above described many evidences of burning 

 were seen upon the earth and stones. Four feet south of the 

 centre were the burnt bones of a young person, laid upon the natural 

 surface in a round heap 11 in. in diameter. Amongst the bones 

 were two pieces of calcined flint and a portion of a bone pin, also 

 burnt. On the south-east side of this deposit, but placed a little 

 above the bones, was a vessel of pottery which had within it, 

 besides some charcoal, a smaller vessel, laid on its side. The 

 smaller vessel is in shape a miniature cinerary urn, being 3| in. 

 high, 2f in. wide at the mouth, and 2 in. at the bottom. The 

 overhanging rim, which is 1 in. deep, and the body of the urn for a 

 space of Jin. below the rim, are both ornamented with vertical lines 

 of twisted-thong impressions, the lower series being edged at the 

 bottom with an encircling line of the same impression. The larger 

 urn, which is 6J in. high, 4J in. wide at the mouth, and 3 in. at the 

 bottom, has an overhanging rim l|in. deep, ornamented at the top 

 and bottom with a double encircling line, the space between being 

 filled in with a band of lines sloping to the left ; below the rim is 

 another double line, and 1| in. lower a similar one, the intervening 

 space being occupied by a reticulated pattern ; all the impressions 

 are of twisted-thong. Though the urn is somewhat rudely made 

 and of badly-tempered clay, the ornamentation is skilfully applied 

 and very effective. At the centre, upon the natural surface, was a 

 fourth deposit of burnt bones, those of an adult, and placed upon 

 the bones was a vessel of pottery. It is quite plain, with a very 

 slight indication of a rim made by the contracting of the urn at 

 the place where the bottom of a rim would ordinarily have been ; 

 it is 4J in. high, 4J in. wide at the mouth, and 2J in. at the 

 bottom. All these vessels were much decayed, and one of them so 

 crushed and broken that nothing could be made out concerning it 

 except that it was of small size, of the ordinary fabric and material, 

 and ornamented after the usual fashion with thong-impressions. 



PARISH OF ROTHBURY. Ord. Map. cix. s.w. 



Lower down the valley, and in the angle formed by the con- 

 fluence of the river Coquet and Thropton Burn, is Cartington Fell, 



