196 Rev, W. Green well on Ajicient British Tumuli. 



fragments of numerous sepulchral vessels of pottery which, 

 have been found associated with these burials ; many of 

 which, considered as British pottery, shew rare beauty of 

 form and ornamentation, and are of types to which, in a 

 very considerable experience, I have seen nothing similar. 

 From the centre of a small barrow upon Ford Common, 

 which contained two other interments of burnt bodies without 

 any accompaniment of urn, &c., was taken a rather rudely 

 formed urn* filled with burnt bones. Close to the outside 

 of the urn were four jet beads, three of a cylindrical form, 

 the fourth shaped like a slightly conical button. In another 

 instance, a necklace of jet beads, of varied form, was found 

 strung round the neck of an urn ; unfortunately, neither the 

 urn nor beads have been preserved. f In another barrow at 

 Broomridge, within a circular hollow sunk in the ground 

 and lined with clay, an urn X was found, filled with burnt 

 bones, whilst reversed upon the top of the bones was a smaller 

 urn,|i acting as a cover, the bottom of it being upon a level 

 with the natural surface of the ground. On the farm of Ford 

 West Field, several burials of burnt bodies were discovered ; 

 they were placed in circular hollows sunk below the natural 

 surface of the ground, and each covered with a flat stone, 

 upon the under side of two of which were engraved the 

 mysterious symbols which have been lately so well illustrated 

 and described by our Secretary, Mr. Tate. The first place 

 of interment which I examined in 1863, was situated in a 

 field just east of Ford Common. It was placed upon the 

 highest point of ground in the field, where a large flat stone, 

 apparently not in situ, attracted attention. There was no 



* The urn is 8| inches high, and 7\, inches wide at the mouth, having an 

 overhanging rim, ornamented with alternate series of horizontal and vertical lines 

 of impressed twisted thong. 



•j- This discovery was made upon a swelling piece of ground near Crookham 

 Dene, where several circular hollows, each covered with a flat stone and filled 

 with hurnt hones, were found. In one instance, the hollow was lined with small 

 stones, within which was the urn and necklace. There was no appearance of any 

 tumulus having ever covered these buiials, and, in fact, the rounded hill itself 

 formed a natural tumulus. 



+ The urn is 9 inches high, and 7 inches wide at the mouth, having the upper 

 half ornamented hy lines of impressed twisted thong placed herring-bone fashion. 

 It has the unusual peculiarity of a deep (Ifinch) ornamentation on the inside 

 of the lip, formed by a diamond pattern between two encompassing lines, all 

 of impressed twisted thong. 



II The smaller urn is 5 inches high, and 4| inches wide at the mouth, having 

 the upper half ornamented by encompassing horizontal lines of impressed twisted 

 thong, below which is a line of very short vertical lines, also of impressed twisted 

 thong. 



