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answered by the next class of sepulchral vessel, the ' Drinking Cup.' 

 Though not so commonly met with as the ' food vessel/ it is never- 

 theles^s sufficiently abundant ; I have found it associated with burials 

 in the wold barrows in 24 cases, 2 of these being burials after cre- 

 mation. It occurs throughout the whole of Britain, and varies 

 less in each different locality than those of the other classes of 



Fig. 81. 



sepulchral pottery. ' Drinking cups ' have been met with in Wilt- 

 shire and in Argyleshire so identical in shape and ornamentation, 

 that a representation of one might almost stand for the other ; and 

 I possess two, one from Northumberland, the other from Argyle- 

 shire, which are not easily to be distinguished from each other. 

 ' Drinking cups ' do not appear to have been met with in Ireland ; 

 but a form of vessel approaching them in shape and ornamentation 

 has been found in the dolmens of Guernsey and Brittany. In 

 Holland and North Germany somewhat similar vases, though not 



