NOTICE OF A CINERARY URN AT HUSTYN- 



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had been in the urn is not known. One of them, like the tip of a 

 leaf, I found on the spot where the urn had been broken. They 

 may have been used for kindling fire at the time of the cremation 

 of the body. In form they are flakes of the type known as knives 

 or scrapers. Their edges show no secondary chipping. They have 

 been broken across, and measure about 1, 1|-, and 2 inches in length 

 respectively. They strikingly resemble some* found in Mullion, the 

 Scilly Isles, &c. 



The structure of the Barrow, as already stated, was destroyed 

 before I saw it ; but, on causing its remains to be dug over, I 

 noticed in the central part — under the stones and the fine black earth 

 — blue clay, and lower still yellow clay. The latter underlying the 

 natural surface of the soil. I observed that great numbers of stones 

 had been collected in ridges upon the hill, and in the field, to clear 

 the ground. Many others, with the stones from this barrow, had 

 been cast into a dyke or gully, close by, made perhaps to drain the 

 land, and locally termed a " goff'en." 



The Urn itself must now be described. 



In plate A, I have endeavoured to shew its probable form. It seems 

 to have nearly resembled the largest Cornish Urns yet discovered : 

 — viz. those found by Mr. Borlase at Boscregan and Tregaseal, in 

 St. Just (near Cape Cornwall and not far from the Land's End). It 

 is also much like those found at Clahar Garden, in Mullion. 



The " Hustyn Urn " as I must, for distinction, call the one I am 

 describing, has been smashed into countless pieces, quite beyond 

 restoration. From what the finders state, and judging by its frag- 

 ments, it stood about twenty inches in height. In form it tapered 

 inward both towards the bottom and towards the mouth. The 

 bottom is fiat and circular, 6 inches in diameter and f in. thick, 

 The sides are only half as thick, but towards the brim the pottery 

 is again found to be more substantial. Two hollow handles (as large 

 as those on the Boscregan Urn) were fixed just below the bulge. 

 Each measures 3 inches in length and height, 1^ in. in projection, 

 and was formed of clay, ^-in. thick. 



* W. C. Borlase's Ncenia Cornuh : pp. 161, 226. Jewitt's Grave Mounds 

 p. 121, &c. 



