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the g-old vase found in a barrow at Rillaton, Cornwall [fig-s. 87, 

 SSjS^'may all possibly be included in this class of sepulchral vessels. 

 The « "drinking cups ' are usually thin in the walls, very neatly 

 mad'^ of fine paste, and generally much better fired than those of 

 any other class of sepulchral pottery ; nor do they, as a rule, contain 

 any broken stone mixed amongst the clay, though it does sometimes 

 occur, and then very finely pounded, almost like sand. The colour 

 is very frequently of a pale yellowish brown, but they are often 

 dark brown, and gradually change from that, by a greater or less 

 admixture of red, until in some of them that colour predominates. 



The ornamentation upon them is very varied, though not more so 

 perhaps than it is found to be on the ' food vessels.' A better idea how- 

 ever of the designs upon them (as indeed is the case with all the classes 

 of sepulchral vessels) will be obtained from the engravings than any 

 words can give. They are almost always ornamented over the whole 

 surface from top to bottom, sometimes to a considerable depth within 

 the rim, and now and then on the bottom itself. I have met with 

 one instance on the wolds of a ' drinking cup ' ornamented on the 

 bottom ; it was found near Goodmanham [No. cxvi] ; the pattern 

 was divided into quarters by a cross [figs. 89, 90] -. 



' Arch. Journal, vol. xxlv. p. 189; Evans, Stone Tmpl. p. 402. 



^ One found at Kelleytborpe, East Riding, in a cist, with tLe skeleton of a man, a 

 bronze knife-dagger, &c., is ornamented on the bottom with a cross pattern. Another 

 from Edgefield-by-Holt, Norfolk, in the ix)ssession of Mr. Fitch, F.S.A., of Nor\vich, 



