202 REGENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN CORNWALL. 



With, regard to such an association of relics, Hoare has 

 recorded of other deposits that out of 68 collections of burnt 

 bones, found in urns in round barrows, about one-fourth were 

 accompanied by bronze knife-daggers or by awls, and one (as 

 in this instance) by both. Borlase has also described bronze 

 daggers found with Cornish urns. 



(A). The covering slab was of slate, about 4-ft. long, and 

 lf-in. thick. 



(B). The urn's general form appeared in the impression or 

 cast of it which the earth had taken, but this did 

 not give its true height, for the upper portion had 

 been crushed down by superincumbent weight into 

 the lower, spreading the base. 



Between the urn and the rock was an under-layer of 

 black burnt earth or charcoal, f-in. thick, which 

 perhaps had escaped through the fractures of the 

 pottery. 



The true dimensions of the urn compared with those 

 of the space into which it had been compressed were 

 the following : — 



Urn itsele. 



Inches 



Height 20i. 



,, from top of handles ) ,3 

 up to brim . . jl 4 ' 



, , from bottoms of han- 

 dles down to base 

 Diameter at mouth . . 



„ outside the handles 

 „ at base 

 Thickness of brim 

 „ sides 



,, base 



,, handles 



handles 



Earth-cast of Urn. 



"Width of 



Height of 



Projection of 



Diam. of horizontal holes 



13 



15 

 20 

 61 



Inches. 

 11 



15 

 20 

 11 



[The effect produced by the 

 crushing is shewn in the 

 illustration.] 



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2 



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