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The urn, from the regularity of its curving, seems to have 

 been formed on a potter's wheel. In shape it tapers upward 

 and outward from its flat circular base, as far as its bulge, around 

 which is a slight projection. Thence upward it contracts, and 

 finally expands gradually towards the brim. The top edge is 

 bevelled down outward. Its two handles are broad curved loops 

 spanning the bulge. In color it is of a drab pale brown. The 

 urn is clean within for about one third of its height, above that 

 it is blackened as if by smoke from its smouldering contents. 



Ornamentation has been effected by the impress of a cord 

 or twist, not by means of a plait. Below the handles, the sides 

 are plain. They and the portion above the bulge are adorned. 

 On each handle are several horizontal rows of diagonal lines 

 forming vertical irregular zigzags bounded above with a hori- 

 zontal line. On one handle each zigzag consists of 3 imperfect 

 chevrons, on the other of 2^-. 



Within the mouth, on the inner slope below the brim, a 

 band of ornament runs round formed of two horizontal lines 

 enclosing a row of chevrons with their apices to the right. 



Outside, just below the brim, are four horizontal encircling 

 lines, and just above the bulge three others. The intervening 

 space, 4£ inches deep, between these sets of lines, is filled with 

 triangular batches of diagonal parallel lines (from 12 to 17 in 

 each), so arranged as to slant alternately in contrary directions 

 and form a zigzag design. This chief pattern, which encircles 

 the urn above the handles, has not hitherto been figured as 

 occurring on Cornish examples, though the Gerrans, Portscatha, 

 Denzell, and Trannack urns have adornments approaching to it 

 in style, — but it has been met within other counties, for instance 

 at Oldbury in North Wilts,* at Darley Dale, and Hitter Hill in 

 Derbyshire,! and in Stafford shire, J whilst in Lancashire§ a 

 design very similar to it has been found. It also occurs on 

 incense-cups|| in Glamorgan and Aberdeen. 



*Archaeologia, Vol. 43, PI. xxx, fig. 3, and p. 349. 

 fJewitt's Grave Mounds and their contents, figs, 93, 98, 104. 

 I „ „ „ %. 85. 



§ „ „ „ fig. 90. 



HArchaeologia, Vol. 43, figs. 43, 61, 



