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repaired before it was used for funeral purposes. A portion 

 of the rill was broken away, and the crack extended for some 

 distance down the side. A small hole was bored in the rim on 

 each side of the crack, in which a thong or cord was inserted 

 and tightened. One of the holes is shown in the photograph. 



The other example is rather more cylindrical, though very 

 similar in construction, and is as crudely made. This pot is 



British Cinerary Urns from Scunthorpe. 



rather thicker, and the rim is about half-an-inch wide. The 

 vessel is II inches high, 9 inches across the top, 5 inches across 

 the bottom, and has the merest suspicion of a shoulder at a 

 distance of 2\ inches from the rim. There are marks of the 

 workman's fingers all round the pot. The collar, to the depth 

 of 2 inches, is very crudely ornamented by alternate diagonal 

 scratches, forming a series of M's or W's, the bases of the 

 triangles being about ij inches in length. 



Geology. — Mr. A. C. Dalton, who acted as guide, writes : 

 The geologists first visited the Appleby Clay Pits, where a 

 fine section of the Lower Lias Clay was exposed, showing its 

 junction with the Pecten Ironstone. The clay was some 

 thirty feet thick, and contained many nodules from which some 

 good fossils were obtained. The Pecten bed is a thin seam of 

 ironstone, poor in iron, but full of Pecten, and was used by the 



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