74 INTRODUCTION. 



to account for this deposit, which could scarcely orig-inate in 

 anything arising from the calcined bones themselves. 



It is" by no means the rule to find the remains of a burnt 

 body to be enclosed within an urn, either on the wolds or else- 

 where. Out of 78 burnt bodies which occurred in the wold 

 barrows, only 9 were deposited in urns. A cinerary urn, found 

 in a barrow on Sherburn Wold [No. xviii], contained a bronze 

 awl amongst the bones, which itself showed no signs of having 

 been subjected to the action of fire. 



The second class of vessels, that to which the name of ' Incense 





Fig. (il. ^. 



Cup' has been applied, has been found in tlie Orkney Islands, 

 and from thence throughout the whole of Britain, to the extreme 

 limit on the south and west ; they are, however, very uncommon 

 in Dorsetshire and the neighbouring districts to the north and 

 west of that county. They also occur in Ireland. They do 

 not, however, appear amongst the various forms of sepulchral 

 pottery which have been discovered in Scandinavia, Germany, 

 and France. In the barrows on the wolds they are not 

 numerous, and were associated with but 6 out of 78 burials 

 .after cremation. 



They differ considerably in size ; and are found measuring 

 from little more than an inch to about four inches in diameter, 

 and from one inch to above three inches in height. They vary 



