198 Rev. W. Greenwell on Ancient British Tumuli. 



remains of a body, together with a small fragment of a bronze 

 pin, much oxydised ; there was also found just outside the 

 urn and near the top of it, a portion of a bone pin, which 

 had been burnt, and which possibly belonged to the inter- 

 ment with which the plain urn above described was associ- 

 ated. Placed between the side of the urn and a flat stone 

 set on edge, and partly crushed by the pressure, was a small 

 urn standing upright and quite empty. It is 7 inches high, 

 and 4| inches wide at the mouth, having an overhanging 

 rim, which is roughly ornamented in the same manner as the 

 last urn, in addition to which it has, below the rim, short- 

 vertical lines of impressed thong. It cannot, I think, be 

 doubted that this urn was connected with the larger one and 

 its sepulchral contents, and that, in fact, the two formed the 

 adjuncts of one burial; it is diflicult, hovs^ever, to conjecture 

 what office the smaller urn fulfilled, though most probably, 

 whatever was the reason which caused a small urn * to be 

 placed amongst the burnt bones in a larger one, or in a cist, 

 or amongst burnt bones placed simply in a tumulus, the 

 same object was answered by the smaller urn in the present 

 case. About six inches east of the flat stone was placed 

 another urn, standing upright, but much crushed and broken 

 by the pressure of the earth. It was filled with burnt bones, 

 amongst which was placed a perfectly plain and rudely 

 made urn of the "incense cup" type. If inches high, and 3 

 inches wide— ;^^. 3. The larger uxw—Jig. 2 — is of coarse 

 make and shape, 9i inches high, and 9 inches wide at the 

 mouth, having an overhanging rim, which is roughly orna- 

 mented with alternate series of vertical and horizontal lines 

 of impressed thong. A few inches north of this urn was 

 another, so much decayed that only a few portions of it 

 remained. The rim has a reticulate pattern of impressed 

 thong, the urn below the rim being marked with scattered 

 oval impressions. From the broken state of this and the 

 last urn, and their close proximity, it is not possible to say 

 whether two burnt bodies had accompanied the two urns or 

 not, though such was most probably the case. As I have 

 before stated, all these interments were placed in a hollow 



* These urns are usually of the so called " incense cup " type, and are of 

 small size and shaped generally, in the north of England, very much like a 

 common earthenware salt cellar. They are very frequently pierced with two 

 holes, placed close together, which have been supposed to be for the purpose of 

 suspension ; this, however, seems an improbable explanation of their use, for the 

 holes are as commonly near the bottom as at the top. 



