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appearance of a tumulus, thougli such may once have existed 

 and have been destroyed by long continued ploughing. On 

 removing this stone, a cist appeared below it, formed of four 

 stones set on edge, and filled with sand and gravel. Amongst 

 this were dispersed the remains of the burnt body, together 

 with some pieces of charcoal, one very small fragment of 

 pottery, and a flint knife. The knife, for such I think it 

 must be called, is most beautifully and minutely chipped 

 over the whole of one surface, whilst the other, as is usual in 

 the case of such implements, has been taken off from the core 

 at one slice. It is 2 J inches long and f inch broad, tapering 

 off at both ends to a rounded point, and is made of a very 

 fine and transparent kind of flint — Plate XIII., Jig. 7. 



Upon October 17th, I opened a tumulus upon Etall Moor; 

 it was 16 feet in diameter, and above 2J feet high, and was 

 formed of earth with a few stones interspersed. It had been 

 partially disturbed from the Ordnance Surveyors having 

 selected it for the site of one of their surveying posts, to 

 which was due the destruction of a very peculiar specimen 

 of the so called " drinking cup " type of urn. This urn had 

 been placed about a foot below the summit of the barrow, a 

 little to the west of the centre, and had, without doubt, accom- 

 panied an unburnt body,* all traces of which had, however, 

 disappeared. It is entirely covered with lines of impressions 

 made by a circular ended piece of wood or bone, which divide 

 the surface into squares — Plate XIII., Jigs. 5 and 6. Imme- 

 diately east of this urn, and just above the natural surface of 

 the ground, was found another standing upright, and which 

 had both within it and around it burnt bones and charcoal ; 

 the remains of a body which had been interred after crema- 

 tion. The urn is 8 inches high, and 6 inches wide at the 

 mouth, having an overhanging rim, and is quite destitute of 

 ornamentation. Directly below this and almost touching it, 

 was a much larger and very well formed urn, placed, as were 

 all the others to be mentioned presently, in a square hollow 

 sunk below the natural surface of the ground. This urn — 

 fig. 1 — which stood upright, is 14 inches high, and 1% 

 inches wide at the mouth, having an overhanging rim, which 

 is ornamented by a zigzag line; the triangular spaces within 

 which are filled with parallel lines, all made by the impres- 

 sion of a twisted thong. The urn contained the burnt 



• This type of urn, the " drinking cup," is universally found associated with 

 unhurnt bodies. 



