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adult of small size, was an ' incense cup ' [fig. 149], 2 in. high, the 

 same in width at the mouth, 3f in. about the middle, and 2| in. at 

 the bottom; it is ornamented rather irregularly, and the lines 

 forming the pattern have been produced by means of a sharp- 

 pointed instrument. With the bones were also associated a small 



Fisr. 149. 



flake of flint, calcined, a piece of bronze, which has been subjected 

 to the action of fire, and in consequence is much oxidised and 

 decayed, and which seems to have formed part of a small awl or 



Fig. 150. 



pricker \ and four jet beads [fig. 150]. Two of them are 

 cylindrical of different lengths, another is oblong and four- 

 sided, and the fourth is button-shaped, having the perforation 



' Mr. Bateman mentions the occurrence of what he calls a bronze pin, in comiection 

 with a deposit of burnt bones and an ' incense cup,' in two Derbyshire barrows. 

 Vestiges, p. 34; Ten Years' Diggings, p. 130. I think it probable that in these and 

 other cases where the article discovered is spoken of as a pin, that the instrument is 

 really an awl or pricker. The fragment which was met with in the barrow now under 

 notice is so small that it is impossible to state positively what it may originally have 

 been; but in those instances where I have found complete implements, such as this 

 fi-agment may well have formed a portion of, they have always been awls or prickers. 



