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in some rude form of cloth; most frequently in Wiltshire they were 

 deposited in urns. The proportion of urn burials there is as three to 

 one. A typical urn is shown in figure 96. 



"The urns were sometimes placed upright, at others they were in- 

 verted, the latter being the more common custom. The mouths of 

 these urns were frequently stopped with clay or closely packed with 

 flints. The urns vary in size considerably, from nine inches to fifteen 



Fig. 98.^An incense cup from Normantondown, near 

 Stonehenge. Drawing by the author. 



in height, and from about a pint to more than a bushel in capacity. A 

 veritable giant rather over two feet high, the largest of its kind here- 

 tofore found in Wiltshire, is preserved in the Salisbury Museum. An- 

 other, only two inches less in height, was recovered from a barrow 

 within a third of a mile from Stonehenge." One of these large urns 

 is shown in figure 97. 



Fig. 99. — A gold-plated cone, Stonehenge. Drawing by 

 the author. 



"In most cases various objects were found associated with these 

 interments, such as drinking cups, food vessels, incense cups, such as 



