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peculiar pattern, the remains of which were met with scattered 

 about a foot below the summit of the barrow and a little to the 

 west of the centre. It had without doubt orig-inally accompanied 

 an unburnt body, all trace of which had however disappeared. 

 The pattern has covered the whole vessel, and consists of lines in 

 pairsj placed vertically and horizontally, each pair at a little distance 

 from the other; the effect is to mark off the surface into plain 

 oblong sections (the longer side being vertical) bordered by tw^o 

 lines ; the lines are formed of ring-shaped impressions, made ap- 

 parently by the section of a reed which has had two nicks cut in 

 it opposite each other^ the circle being thus broken at two points. 

 Immediately to the east of this^ and just above the level of the 

 natural surface, was a cinerary urn standing upright, and having 

 both within and around it burnt bones with some pieces of charcoal 

 amongst them. The urn, somewhat like fig. 54 in shape, is 

 perfectly plain, with an overhanging rim 2 in. deep, and is 7f in. 

 high, 5f in. wide at the mouth, and 3| in. at the bottom. Directly 

 beneath this urn, indeed all but touching it, was a much larger one, 

 placed — like all those to be mentioned presently — in an oblong 

 hollow sunk below the natural surface. It was standing upright 

 and contained the bones of a burnt body, those of an adult, amongst 

 which was a small fragment of bronze much oxidized, probably the 

 remains of an awl or pricker ; whilst just outside the top of the 

 rim of the urn was the pointed end of a calcined bone pin, which 

 had no doubt been connected with the burnt body. The urn, in 

 shape like that last described, is 14^ in. high, 10^ in. wide at 

 the mouth, and 4 in. at the bottom; it has an overhanging rim 

 3^ in. deep, which is ornamented on the inside of the lip by a band 

 of short sloping lines, and on the outside by a zigzag line oc- 

 cupying the whole depth of the rim, the triangular spaces formed 

 by which are filled in with parallel lines, the pattern being identical 

 with that on the upper part of fig. 138, except that it has only 

 one encircling line, instead of two, above and below the triangular 

 spaces ; the whole of the lines are due to the application of twisted- 

 thong. Placed between the side of this last-mentioned urn and a 

 flat stone set on edge, and partially crushed by pressure, was a 

 small urn standing upright and quite empty. It is in shape like 

 the last, but more rudely made, and is 7 in. high, 4^ in. wide at the 

 mouth and 3 in. at the bottom, and has an overhanging rim If in. 

 deep, which is roughly ornamented w^ith the same pattern as that on 

 the last one ; it has in addition an encircling band of short vertical 



