CINERARY URNS. 



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Britain \ In the south-west of Eiig-land they liave been made 

 with semicircular handles in slight relief placed near to the 

 top, apparently to lift them by, and the same form occurs in 

 Gloucestershire and Norfolk. Some have been met with, but 

 very rarely, and never, so far as I know, on the wolds, which 

 have unperforated projections round the rim, presenting- in this 

 respect much the same appearance as some of the 'food vessels,' 

 in which this is so common. I possess a cinerary urn, found 

 at Scalby in the North Riding, which has the uncommon 



Fig. 56. i- 



feature of possessing two holes, l^ in. apart, pierced through the 

 rim near to the top. Others having the same peculiarity have 

 been discovered in different parts of England. The object of 

 these holes in many cases has evidently been to repair a cracked 

 vessel. This cannot however have been the purpose in all cases, 

 for in some of those I have had an opportunity of examining the 

 holes have been made before the vessel was burnt. 



* Mr. Llewellyn Jewitt figures one in Grave Mounds, p. 95, fig. 98, from Darley 

 Dale, Derbyshire, which has four pierced ears ; it measures lOJ inches in height : an 

 ' incense cup ' with a handle was discovered with it. 



