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but is quite plain, with the exception of having a circular boss, 

 with a raised rib surrounding it, at the centre of the bottom on 

 the outside. In the inside, corresponding to the boss on the 

 outside, is a cup-shaped depression If in. in diameter and nearly 

 half an inch deep. The vessel is 1 1 in. high, 2| in. wide at 

 the mouth, and 3J in. at the bottom. 



CXLVIII. Like the last, the present barrow was very incon- 

 spicuous : to cursory observation it was only a natural rise of 

 the ground of circular form ; though no doubt there had once 

 been some addition made to the ordinary surface- soil. In a 

 hollow 2 ft. in diameter and sunk to a depth of 1 ft. and which 

 was filled in with burnt earth, was a deposit of the burnt 

 bones of an adult woman, very much calcined. The body had 

 been burnt on the spot, the hole having been first made. Im- 

 mediately above the bones though not in contact with them, 

 some burnt earth intervening, was placed an ' incense cup.' This, 

 though most symmetrically formed and tastefully ornamented, 

 is made of clay, which has become so much disintegrated that 

 no very exact measurement or description can be given of it. 

 It seems however to have been in shape like fig. 62, 2f in. wide 

 at the mouth, and gradually widening for a depth of 1^ in., when it 

 narrows again towards the bottom. The inside of the lip has two 

 encircling lines upon it, and the upper part of the vessel is an 

 exact counterpart in miniature of the overhanging rim of fig. 138 ; 

 the lower part is plain. The pattern is made by impressions most 

 regularly applied of a very delicately-twisted thong. There still 

 remains one hole pierced through the side at the middle of the 

 cup, and there may have been another. Amongst the bones and 

 surrounded by fragments of the skull was a second ' incense cup ' 

 [fig. 63]. It is pierced with twenty-seven holes in nine vertical 

 rows of three each, and is ornamented over the whole surface 

 with parallel encircling lines of twisted-thong impressions. On 

 the bottom, at the outside, is a circular raised ring If in. in 

 diameter, and on the inside is a similar ring of the same size. 

 The cup is If in. high, 2f in. wide at the mouth, and 3| in. at 

 the bottom. 



CXLIX. The fifth barrow was scarcely more apparent than the 

 last. In a hollow 2 ft, in diameter and 8 in. deep was a deposit of 

 the burnt bones of a child 6 or 7 years old, above which, on the 



