VESSELS OF THE BxVRROWS NOT DOMESTIC. 



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plain ware, without ornament of any kind, is in fact just what 

 we would expect domestic pottery to be, and has nothing- in 

 which it resembles the sepulchral vessels. And more than this, 

 60 far as I know of my own experience or can learn from that of 

 others, no whole vessel, or even fragments, of the ordinary sepul- 



Fig. 91. 



Fig. 92. i. 



chral pottery of the barrows or other places of sepulture has ever 

 been met with in connection with places of habitation. A dis- 

 covery was made in the county of Durham which affords most 

 valuable evidence upon this point. A cave in the limestone 

 had been the habitation of a family, during the bronze age, 

 for a lengthened period, if we may judge from the large quantity 

 of animal bones, the remains of its food, found therein. These 



