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have to thank H. R. Baird, Esq., for permission to measure and 

 photograph these two urns. 



The following table gives the principal measurements of the 

 urns : 



MEASUEEMENTS IN MM. OF URNS FROM SHORT CISTS. 



The urns are all of a wonderfully uniform appearance and have 

 the usual characters of urns of the " drinking-vessel " type, with thin 

 everted lip, bulging sides and flat bottom (Plates IV. and V.). 



The ornamentation of these urns is made up of lines or dots 

 which have been imprinted on the moist clay probably by means of 

 a pointed piece of wood. 



These dots and lines are formed into patterns arranged in 

 horizontal bands round the urn. In the simplest form of pattern 

 horizontal lines and rows of dots alternate (Plate V., Fig. 2). Zigzag 

 lines passing horizontally round are seen in several of the urns, while 

 fringes of short diagonals and cross-hatchings are also present. 



IMPLEMENTS. 



The implements found in these cists were flint arrow heads, flint 

 knives or scrapers, and in one cist a small flint borer was found along 

 with flint arrow heads. There is no record of bronze in any form 

 having been present in any of the cists. 



From the Persley cist two flint implements have been preserved, 



one shaped like a small spear head, the other knife-shaped. The first 



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