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to the age of bronze, and it is to them that the man who 

 occupied the Cist at Wooler is to be referred. The question, 

 however, is much too large an one to be considered in this 

 brief relation, and it must be sufficient, at the present, to 

 merely thus epitomise it. 



The second burial of which I purpose to give an account, 

 was discovered, during the summer of 1872, on the farm of 

 Mr Clark, of Ilderton, and within a short distance of that 

 place. Numerous interments have been met with from time 

 to time in the immediate neighbourhood ; and a few years 

 ago a cist was found not very far from the present one, which 

 contained a skull of a markedly brachy cephalic character, an 

 account of which will be found in the " Natural History 

 Transactions of Northumberland and Durham," Vol. I., pt. 2. 



I am sorry that I am unable, for lack of any notes taken 

 at the time of the discovery, to give a minute description of 

 the size and position of the Cist, or of its contents. It was 

 placed, however, somewhat below the surface of the ground, 

 and consisted, like other similar places of interment, of slabs 

 of stone, set on edge, forming an oblong cist, with a larger 

 stone covering the chamber. It had contained an unburn t 

 body, very few remains of which were left ; and there was 

 also found in association with the body, a vase of pottery, to 

 which the name of " Food Vessel " has been given. It was 

 broken in taking it out, and unfortunately but a small part of 

 the vessel was preserved ; enough, however, remains to 

 enable me to give a correct idea of its size and shape, as also 

 of the ornamentation upon it. It is 4J inches high, 5| inches 

 wide at the mouth, and %\ inches at the bottom. On the 

 inside of the lip of the urn are two rows of small oblong im- 

 pressions running round it ; on the edge of the lip are diagonal 

 lines of twisted thong impressions, and below the lip are 

 similar but longer impressions, placed diagonally but in the 

 reverse way to those on the edge ; below this is a row of 

 oblong impressions, and then three series of thong impres- 

 sions ; below these is a row of diagonal lines, but in a reverse 

 way to the row above ; on the shoulder, so to call it, of the 

 vase, is on each edge a row of upright short lines, having 

 between them two rows of oblong impressions ; from thence 

 to the bottom the vase is covered with encircling lines, made 

 by short pieces of twisted thong applied to the moist clay. 



There can be little doubt, I think, that the name which 



