370 



EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



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barrow (Fig. 141). Various articles and implements of 

 daily use were thrown into the fire, 1 and the burnt 

 remains were sometimes placed in the urn with the ashes 

 of the dead. The implements, weapons, and ornaments, 

 enumerated in the list, p. 346, were also interred for use 

 in the world of spirits, together with drinking cups of 

 the type of Fig. 127, and more rarely with curious per- 

 forated earthenware vessels (Fig. 128), which probably 

 were used either to carry the sacred fire with which to 

 light the pile, or as censers in the funeral ceremonies ; 

 food also was placed for the dead, as well as flakes and 

 splinters of flint. The tumulus or cairn was carefully 

 raised over the urn, and the memory of the dead main- 

 tained by periodic feasts, after which either earth or 

 stone was added to the height of the mound or cairn, 

 each feast being represented by a layer of broken and 

 burnt bones of the short-horned ox, horse, sheep or goat, 

 and hog, together with charcoal. 



FIG. 141. Bell-shaped Barrow at Winterslow. 



It not unfrequently happens that a barrow or cairn 



1 In 1878 Mr. Rooke Pennington and myself obtained an urn out of 

 a cairn on Lose Hill, Castleton, Derbyshire, in which, a flint knife had 

 been placed. Its surface was covered with a fine glaze from the fusion 

 of the flint in contact with the alkali in the wood ashes of the funeral fire. 



