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know that inhumation vras practised along with cremation throughout 

 the entire period ^of the latter practice. The absence, on the vessel 

 found with the skeleton, of ornament impressed with a toothed tool, 



which appears to be the 

 more characteristic form 

 of decoration on vessels 

 found with body burial, 

 ^^ and the developed form 



'|^^35;5^^_______ rriS'''^^^^^^ *- of the vessel, render it, 



in Mr. Coffey's opinion, 

 probable that, although 

 ',[£■: the uncremated inter- 

 ^Ss^ ment need not neces- 

 sarily be associated with 

 the cremated burials, no 

 markeddifference in time 

 exists. 

 The fragment (fig. 2, a, h) is the most interesting piece. It is a 

 portion of the rim of a large vessel with raised applied ornament. The 

 raised portion of the ornament has flaked off this fragment, but is seen 

 on some of the other fragments. This class of ornament points in itself 

 to a late period, but 

 the details of the frag- 

 ment under conside- 

 ration furnish a par- 

 ticular reference. The 

 banded form of the 

 rim, and the sort of 

 raised clasp of two ^ 

 cross bands suggest- 

 ing a handle, recall 

 forcibly the rim and 

 handle-attachment of 

 the bronze chaldrons 

 found in Ireland, and 

 attributed to the close 

 of the Bronze Age or 

 beginning of the Iron 

 Period (fig. 5 (fig. 407, Cat. E.I.A., p. 530), and detail of rim and 

 handle-attachment, fig. 6). 



The wide sloping-in form of the inside of the rim (fig. 2, h), the 



Fig. 6. 



