A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



stone circles which here and there, as at Anglezarke and in places on the 

 Extwistle and Lancaster moors, give indication of tumuli which have disap- 

 peared from the 

 surface. 



At Darwen, 

 further to the north 

 on the same upland, 

 several burials are 

 recorded. In the 

 grounds of White 

 Hall was a mound 

 30 yds. in diameter, 

 and of a height 

 about i o ft. or 12 ft. 

 maximum, above 

 the contour of the 

 ground. The mound 

 is described as ' na- 

 tural.' In it were 

 ten distinct inter- 

 ments, some being 



FIG. 26. PATTERNS UPON CINERARY URNS FROM DARWEN. burnt bones without 



urns or cist ; others 



in urns, one of which was in an inverted position. On the top of each of 

 the cinerary urns was a rough flat stone surrounded and covered by small 

 stones carefully filled in. The cinerary urns are mostly of the two-tier 

 variety, with rectilinear decoration. The variety of designs found in 

 association is of some special interest, and is illustrated in the sketch appended, 

 fig. 26. One of them with punctuated decoration is less common, and 

 shown in fig. 27. An incense-cup, plain, and bronze implement, presumably 

 a knife-dagger, much corroded, were found in the same place. 



From the height of Revidge, above Blackburn, comes also a characteristic 

 burial of the early Bronze Age, with a simple urn of two decorated tiers and 

 overhanging rim (fig. 28), a bone pin about 2 in. long, and a bronze pin-head. 

 The whole seems to have been enclosed as usual 

 below a mound, while the urn was found 

 inverted in a bed of sand. 



Further north again, upon the moors 

 around Lancaster, burials of the Bronze Age are 

 even more numerous than elsewhere recorded. 

 In one spot were found a number of urns, about 

 2 ft. below the surface, lying in pairs at intervals 

 of a yard, in a row which extended east and 

 west. One was enclosed in four flag-stones, 

 with a fifth at the top. A bone pin, ' bronze 

 arrow-head and spear-head,' are recorded among 

 the deposit. The same alignment was noticed 

 in another instance, at a place distant about a 

 quarter of a mile, where one of the urns has two 



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FIG. 27. URN WITH PUNCTUATED 

 DECORATION FROM DARWEN, 



