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the lip with four encircling' lines of twisted-thong impressions, and 

 on the upper three inches of the vessel with bands of lines arranged 

 herring-bone fashion, and made by the application of very thick 

 and loosely-twisted thong. In the same cist was an instrument 

 precisely like that found in a grave at Rudstone [fig. 34], and 

 made from the antler of a very large red-deer. The other two cists 

 contained each the remains of an unburnt body, but with no 

 associated article in either case. An iron javelin or spear-head and 

 a small bronze buckle are said to have been found in one of the 



Fig. 161. j. 



cists, but both the objects named seem to be so evidently of later 

 date as to make it probable that they belonged to some post-Roman 

 interments which had taken place at the spot many centuries later 

 than the era which saw the construction of the cists in which the 

 vases and buttons were found. It is a fact that some bodies interred 

 at full length and with the heads to the west were discovered at 

 the same place, and it is more than likely that with one of them 

 the iron spear-head had been associated. The cists were brought to 

 light by workmen quarrying limestone, and the account given to 

 me was by no means a clear one as regarded the spear-head and 

 buckle. In a quarry near Hepple, not four miles distant, several 

 undoubted Anglian burials have been met with. 



