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and observant explorer. Still however there is much remaining-, a 

 systematic investigation of which will it is to be expected add 

 greatly to our stores of information. Accidental discoveries also, 

 due to the operations of the ploughman or the drainer, in cases 

 where no outward memorial gives intimation of the burial below, 

 will continue not only to be made, but also it is to be hoped 

 recorded, and consequently brought under the observation of those 

 who are capable of appreciating their value. 



Parish of Castle Carrook. Ord. Map. cvi. s.e. 



The only opportunity I have had of examining a sepulchral 

 deposit beneath a barrow in the county of Cumberland occurred at 

 Castle Carrock, near to Brampton. Discoveries of burials in cists 

 had from time to time been made in this neighbourhood, but had 

 scarcely attracted notice beyond the immediate locality. 



CLXIII. In the year 1865, in the process of cultivating a field 

 called Leafy Hill, the cover-stone of an unsuspected cist was 

 touched by the plough. The cist had been constructed in a natural 

 rise of the land, the cover-stone being but a few inches below the 

 surface. It was of the ordinary form, m^ade with four stones set on 

 edge with a single large slab over all, and was placed in a direction 

 north-east and south-west. It contained the body of an old man 

 laid on the left side, with the head to N.E., having one arm 

 extended, the other across the chest. Behind tlie head was a 

 ' drinking cup ' laid on its side ; this was broken into several pieces 

 in order that each of the men working in the field might have 

 a portion. From some of the pieces I succeeded in recovering 

 I have been enabled to make out the size, form, and ornamentation 

 of the vessel with sufficient exactness. It is in shape like fig. 81, 

 but widening more towards the mouth, and must have been about 

 T\ in. high, and is b\ in. wide at the mouth ; it is ornamented over 

 the whole surface with narrow encircling bands defined by a grooved 

 line on each side of them, every fourth band having upon it 

 short sloping lines, these being arranged on the bands alternately 

 from right to left and from left to right. On the bottom of the 

 cist was some charcoal. 



CLXIV. About fifty yards to the south of the cist just described 

 was another swell or rising point of land, upon the summit of 



