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YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



up to the face. In the grave were also found the first two molars 

 of a small ox. 



The pottery discovered in this barrow requires a more than 

 ordinary description. It is the best manufactured and the most 

 delicately ornamented of any that I have hitherto met with. The 

 clay, although it has not resisted the various disintegrating agencies 

 to which it has been subjected so well as that of much coarser and 

 worse-made vessels, has apparently been well tempered and is with- 

 out any mixture of broken stone in its composition. The shape 

 of the complete vessel^ as will be seen from the engraving, is 

 elegant; and its symmetry is such as to show the hand of a master 



Fig. 132. i. 



in its fabrication. The ornamentation is very tastefully applied 

 and with great judgment, and in the delicate arrangement of 

 its pattern and the skill with which that has been carried out 

 it much exceeds the most of even the finer specimens of the fictile 

 ware of the period. It is 3f in. high, 5f in. wide at the rim, 

 and 2^ in. at the bottom. The ornamentation is so well represented 

 in the engraving, that it is only necessary to say that the markings 

 on the inside of the lip of the rim consist of three lines of impres- 

 sions of very delicately-twisted thong or cord apparently of three 

 plaits, applied close together ; and that a similar series encircles 

 the vase close to the bottom. The vase which had the cover 

 attached to it is unfortunately in so fragmentaiy a state that 

 neither its shape nor size can be ascertained ; it has had, so far 

 as can be judged from the lower part, which is all that remains, 

 straight sides for above two inches from the bottom; in what 



