RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN CORNWALL. 



195 



some have thought, merely to strengthen it. This great urn, 

 dug from its barrow in 1879, I saw purchased in 1887, by Mr. 

 Franks, for the British Museum, which now contains it.* 



In 1881 a large urn was found in a barrow on the north- 

 east side of Hustyn-hill. Its fragments were figured and 

 described by me in this Journal,! and were then presented to our 

 Truro Museum. 



*At the time of the purchase Mr. Franks stated, that until then, there had 

 not been a single Cornish cinerary urn in the national collection. The largest 

 Cornish urn known, seems to be the " Denzell great urn," the fragments of which 

 I secured, at the Laregan sale, for the Royal Institution of Cornwall. Mr. 

 Borlase stated, that it cannot have been much less than 2 or 3 feet in height. 



His restoration of its appearance is shewn in the accompanying illustration (see 

 Nasnia Cornubise, pp. 242-4). The pieces of it are now in our Museum at Truro. 

 fRoyal Inst. Corn. Journal, Vol. VII, p. 141. 



