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head was a third [fig. 81]. These vessels, as will be seen from 

 the figures, are very fine and varied specimens of the class to 

 which they belong". They differ among-st themselves not only in 

 their form and ornamentation^ l>ut also in the quality of the paste ; 

 that found close to the woman ])eing much harder and more friable 

 than the other two, which a])pears to be due to the large quantity 

 of sand mixed with the day, and which gives quite a gritty feeling 

 to the pottery. 



The two bodies found at the bottom of the grave can scarcely be 



Fig-. 133. i. 



regarded as other than those of a mother and child, the former 

 of whom appears to have died first; the grave being afterwards 

 opened and her bones partly displaced to insert close bv her the 

 body of the child. The third 'drinking cup ' was not intimately 

 associated with either of the bodies, though it was probably con- 

 nected with that of the woman; instances have been met with 

 in other barrows where more than one sepulchral vessel has been 

 found accompanying a sing-le burial \ The ornamentation upon 



' It may suffice to mention one instance in illustration of tins fact. In a cist with 

 the skeleton of a girl aliout nine years old, found at North Sunderland, Northumber- 

 land, three ' di-iuking cups ' were discovered. Trans, of Berwickshire Natui-alists' 

 Club, vol. iv. p. 428. pi. xiii. 



