SEPULCHRAL POTTERY. 



Ill 



even down to the times of Charlemagne,* has led to some 

 confusion, because objects of very different date are thus 

 liable to be described as coming from one grave ; yet,, on the 

 other hand, it is very instructive, as there are several cases 

 on record, besides the one above mentioned, of interments 

 characterised by bronze being found above, and being, 

 therefore, evidently subsequent to others, accompanied by 

 stone only. 



On the whole, however, though it is evident that the objects 

 most frequently buried with the dead would be those most 

 generally used by the living, and though the prevalence of 

 stone implements proves the important part played by stone 

 in ancient times, and goes far to justify the belief in a 

 Stone age ; still, the evidence to be brought forward on 

 this point in the following chapters will probably to many 

 minds seem more satisfactory ; 

 and at any rate we must ad- 

 mit that in the present state 

 of our knowledge there are 

 comparatively few interments 

 which we could with confi- 

 dence refer to the Neolithic 

 Stone age, however firmly we 

 may believe that a great many 

 of them must belong to it. 



Mr. Bateman has proposed 

 to range the pottery found in 

 ancient British tumuli under 

 four different heads namely, 

 1. Urns ; 2. Incense Cups ; 3. sepulchral um. 



Food Vases ; 4. Drinking Cups. The urns generally accom- 



FIG. 115. 



* One of his regulations ran as fol- 

 lows : "Jubemus ut corpora Christian- 

 orum Saxonorum ad csemeteria ec- 



clesiae deferantur, et non ad tumulos 

 paganorum." 



