ARBOR LOW EXCAVATIONS IN T9OT AND Tg02. 47 



above the surrounding turf-level (see photograph, plate II.). 

 This barrow was first attacked in 1770 by the then occupier 

 of the farm, without success. Likewise in 1782 by Major 

 Rooke, assisted by John Manders, and in 1824 by William 

 Bateman and Samuel Mitchell, of Sheffield. A fourth attempt, 

 made in 1845, by Thomas Bateman and Rev. S. Isaacson, 

 resulted in the discovery of a limestone cist, which has been 

 frequently described." It contained calcined human bones, a 

 bone pin, + pyrites and flint, and two small urns,f differing con- 

 siderably in style and ornamentation, but undoubtedly of Bronze 

 Age manufacture, and probably rather early in that period.; 



Fig. 1. Urn found in cist of tumulus on the south-east vallum of Arbor Low. 



(Bateman Collection.) § 



These urns are figured in the accompanying illustrations, figs. 1 

 and 2. Fig. 1 was found filled with burnt bones. It is un- 

 usually wide and low : 4^ inches high, 9 inches diameter at top, 

 4 inches diameter at base. The other pot, fig. 2, found with 

 it, is 45 inches high, 5^ inches diameter at top, 3 inches at 



* "Arbor Low," by Sir John Lubbock, The Reliquary, xx. 81-85; 

 Bateman's Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire, 64-66 and 74 ; and 

 Winchester Volume of the British Archreological Association (1845), 197- 

 204. 



t Figured in Fergusson's Rude Stone Monuments, 141, and Vestiges, 65. 



% These relics are in the Sheffield Museum. The urns are reproduced 

 by kind permission of Mr. E. Howarth, the curator. 



§ Dr. Brushfield calls my attention to the very misleading representation of 

 this urn in Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire, p. 65. — Ed. D.A.N.H.S. 



