NOTICE OF A CINERARY URN AT HUSTYN. 



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whicli are supposed to be the most ancient (from their containing 

 flint implements along with the calcined hones), are of large size, 

 ranging from about 9 to 18 inches in height." 



These general remarks suit the case before us, but the largest 

 Cornish urns are from 19 to 22 inches in height. 



In concluding this paper, I would thank the Messrs. Thomas for 

 the full information they afforded, — for their exertions in finding and 

 conveying to me as many of the fragments as possible, as soon as 

 they knew that they were worth preserving, — for their acquiescing 

 so readily in the proposal that I should place the discovered relics 

 in the Eoyal Institution Museum at Truro, — and for facilitating 

 subsequent examinations, by which more of the remains were brought 

 to light. Mr. Wm. Elford, of Bodmin, also helped me to explore 

 the mound. 



To Mr. Tellam I am likewise much indebted, in that he has 

 pointed out an error in the Ordnance Inch-Mile Map — Hustyn Down 

 being therein marked too far to the south-west. He states that 

 below Hustyn Barrow, on the west, was a circular earthwork, now 

 removed, and there are several Barrows (besides those marked) 

 towards the " Stone." He searched for, and found in the Barrow, 

 from which the urn was taken, much that supplied deficiencies. 

 He noted that the stones forming the outer enclosing circle were on 

 their edges, not actually at the circumference, but slightly within 

 the mound, and were but partially exposed where earth had been 

 removed. He helped to dig out the stony circle around the central 

 space. It formed a loosely built wall. His quick perception, more- 

 over, decided to a great extent the positions belonging to most of 

 the pieces, and what must have been the original form of this 

 shattered urn, — unearthed so lately at Hustyn Farm, after having 

 (with its human contents) lain buried and forgotten for perhaps 

 2,000 years. 



