72 THE CELTIC TUMULI OF DORSET. 



British lady, and was found along with her burned bones and 

 ashes in an urn. This was a very fine Tumulus, and contained 

 several urns and skeletons, situated about three miles West of 

 Dorchester within a few hundred yards of the Icknield Way 

 (No. 70 C.T., S.) 



The horn consisted of portions of antlers of the red deer, which 

 were found in several of the barrows, N. and S. In one (Panfield, 

 S.) there were marks of a cutting tool on it ; but it is not obvious 

 for what reason they were deposited with the interments, unless as 

 trophies of the hunter's skill and success in the chase. This would 

 seem to be the most likely explanation, though it is well known 

 that the horn has been used for hafting stone or flint implements, 

 and the tines used as picks in excavating the ground for flint, 

 chalk, &c. 



13. ANIMAL BONES. Those which are noted are as follows: 

 Horse, dog (once only recorded), ox, sheep, and boar (especially the 

 tusks), were the most numerous; fox or badger, and some birds' 

 bones. 



14. 15. 16. FICTILE WARE, CONSISTING OF FOOD VESSELS, 

 DRINKING CUPS, AND INCENSE CUPS. The first is a species of urn 

 of much smaller size than those which contain the incinerated 

 remains of the human body, and are often made of better material 

 of more artistic form, and decorated with more skill than the 

 common urns of the sepulchral class. The plates in Mr. Warne's 

 Work give examples of the former, shewing much diversity of size, 

 form, and ornamentation. They are always found empty, and 

 sometimes are deposited with the body unburned. It appears that 

 a larger number of this class were discovered in the Tumuli of the 

 South than in either of the other districts. This kind, neverthe- 

 less, is not very often found either in Dorset or in Wilts ; they 

 have been found more frequently in Yorkshire ; in Ireland they are 

 numerous and most highly ornamented. In the Badbury Barrow 

 (C., No. 85) Mr. Austen found in a cist a most beautiful specimen, 

 of an unusual shape, and ornamented with three rows of the 

 chevron pattern, and other indentations ; it was two and a-half 



