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mentioned are the only ones wha-e I have found that kind of sepul- 

 chral vessel associated with a hurnt body. The same appears to 

 be the rule in other districts. Messrs. Bateman and Carrington 

 discovered 18 in Derbyshire and Staffordshire, all with unburnt 

 bodies. Sir R. Colt Hoare found 30 in Wiltshire, only four of 

 them deposited with burials after cremation, two of which occurred 

 in combination with two ' incense cups' in a grave with numerous 



burnt bones. 



As in the care of the 'food vessels,' they arc found in juxta- 



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position with almost every part of the skeleton ; the most frequent 

 place of deposit being near the htad, either in front of it or behind. 

 They are also, like the ' food vessels,' sometimes placed on the 

 side, but I think they cannot have originally been deposited in 

 that position, but may have fallen over by the pressure of the 

 surrounding earth; the upright position certainly seems to bo 

 the most natural one. They have been, though rarely, met with 

 at some distance apart from any interment : an instance of this 

 will be found to have occurred in a barrow [No. xcix] on Good- 

 manham Wold. 



In considering the purpose they fulfilled when buried in con- 

 nection with the dead, they must be regarded as forming one 

 part of that class of which the ' food vessel' forms another. What- 

 ever was the purpose of the one, the same, there cannot be any 



