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curator, I am enabled to give the dimensions of a few of this 

 conoidal class of urns in the Dorset Museum : 1. From Winter- 

 borne Clenston, urn, height, 21in. ; diameter of rim, 15in. 2. 

 Whitchurch (Shipp collection), ditto, height, 20|in. ; diameter of 

 rim, 17Jin. 3-4. Lord's Down, Dewlish, ditto, height, 16|in. and 

 16in. ; diameter of rim, 13|in. and 13in. 5. Rimsbury (Warne 

 collection), ditto, height, 16in. ; diameter of rim, 9|in. 6. Winter- 

 borne Abbas (by the late Mr. Manfield), ditto, height, 16in. ; 

 diameter of rim, llfin. One of the finest urns of this class ever 

 found in Dorset was disinterred by Mr. Shipp from a barrow on 

 Eoke Down, and is now in Mr. Durden's Museum. It measures 

 18in. in height, 13 Jin. diameter of mouth, 15in. diameter of bulge, 

 and Tin. diameter of foot. Its contents were thirteen gallons of 

 earth, ashes, and human bones. (Celt. Turn., Warne.) This 

 affords a criterion of the capacity of these large urns. On Whit- 

 church Downs in 1864 Mr. Shipp discovered an urn 22in. in height, 

 and in circumference 53in. It was of plain cylinder shape, 

 decreasing in size to the bottom (conoidal), and contained calcined 

 bones and rudely chipped arrow heads. It has a greater capacity 

 than the Roke Down urn, and is the largest yet found in Dorset. 

 (Celt. Turn. No. 41, Warne.) On Launceston Heath Messrs. Warne 

 and Shipp excavated two barrows, from one of which they obtained 

 a fine urn 19in. in height, 14in. diameter of mouth, with 16in. 

 diameter of bulge, ornamented round the top with a series of 

 Vandykes resembling pointed Gothic arches, and vertical lines to 

 the foot. The other urn was less ornate, but very like the other in 

 form and size. (Celt. Turn., Vignette.) From Bloxworth Down an 

 urn 17in. in height and 15in. in diameter, filled with calcined 

 bones and ashes, was found (ib.) On Boveridge Heath an urn of 

 coarse material 9 Jin. in height and 12in. diameter of mouth, simply 

 and rudely ornamented, inverted over a deposit of calcined bones 

 and protected above by a large sandstone * (ib.) From Merley Heath 

 the Rev. John Austin procured a fine urn height, 17in. ; diameter 



* This urn has been lost, but from a sketch of it which I have it might 

 have been included in the globular class. 



