128 SEPULCHRAL POTTERY. 



" of all the fictile productions of the ancients it has been my lot 

 to excavate, the mould and chalk around being entirely free from 

 any admixture of ashes or bones." Above this primary burial 

 was a child's skeleton, with a drinking cup. Still higher up was 

 found an urn containing calcined bones, quite plain and rudely 

 manipulated. In the upper portion of the barrow were three 

 cinerary urns inverted, two close together, and the other at some 

 distance, but all containing bones and ashes, while a skeleton 

 unburnt was discovered in the highest stratum, at the same 

 depth, but at a distance from one of the cinerary urns. Three 

 of the urns from the barrow are in the INIuseum, numbered i, 

 3, and 31. Mr. Warne concludes his account of the excavation 

 by saying that the urn of the latest interment was the rudest, 

 both in material and construction, whilst the primarj- deposit 

 exhibits the most graceful and tasteful embellishment. 



Again, at Rimbury, near Chalbur}- Camp, on the southern slope 

 of the Ridgeway heights, a very- remarkable series of burials was 

 discovered. Numbers of urns filled with cinerary remains, also a 

 nimiber of cists containing unburnt bones. The different kinds 

 of burials were interspersed without any apparent order or 

 system, skeletons in their integrity being found lying beneath 

 the urns. In the Museum there are several specimens from this 

 great cemeter}', Nos. 15, 16, 17, 19, 36, 39, 40. 



The investigation of the Deverel Barrow, near Milborne S. 

 Andrew, produced somewhat different results. It was opened by 

 Mr. JNIiles in the year 1825, and is fully described in the book he 

 published in the following year. He states that ever}- method of 

 interment had been followed, after cremation had been used ; and, 

 although each corpse had been consumed by fire, the ashes were 

 variously deposited ; some of the remains were merely placed on 

 the ground, some were in cists cut in the chalk ; some of the 

 urns which contained ashes were in specially prepared cists under 

 large stones, while others were enclosed by rude arches made of 

 flints. There is only one urn. No. 79, in the IMuseum from this 

 important burial place, described by Sir Richard Colt Hoare as 

 " a family or general deposit, which must have been frequently 



