DRINKING CUPS. 



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The lines of the various designs have been made by similar 

 instruments, and by the like impressions, as those upon the 'food 

 vessels ;' a very common marking- appears to have been formed by 

 a notched or toothed strip of bone being pressed upon the moist 

 clay. 



It is very rare to find them associated with burials after crema- 



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tion. In a barrow at Rudstone [No. Ixii], a burnt and unburnt 

 body were discovered in adjoining cists; with each was a ' drink- 

 ing cup ' of similar shape and character, and outside the cists was 

 a second deposit of burnt bones, having with it another like cup. 

 I have met with 27 ' drinking cups ' during the course of my bar- 

 row investigations in various places, but the two instances above 



has a cross-shaped figure on the bottom ; and one found in Elk Low, Derbyshire, has 

 the bottom covered with an ornament of a peculiar pattern ; it is figured by Jewitt, 

 Grave Mounds, pp. 103, 104, figs. 110, 111. A fragment of one, now in the British 

 Museum, found at VV^est Lodge Gate, has a pattern on the bottom formed by two 

 lozenge-shaped figures placed together side by side. 



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