524 Notes on Urns and Cists found at Amble. 



length seven and a-quarter inches, the breadth six inches, and 

 the height five and seven-eight inches, and is very thick. The 

 under jaw was thrown away among the debris. In the upper jaw 

 the first molar on the right side is wanting, and where the socket 

 should have been, is quite grown up with the bono of the jaw, 

 indicating either that the want of the tooth was congenital, or 

 that it had been lost at a very early period. 



The lessees of the quarry, Messrs Green and Douglas, readily 

 agreed to inform me if anything else should be discovered, and 

 some months after in further baring the rock, more cists were 

 found, and in two of them were the urns, Plate in., figs. 1 and 2. 

 On the first visit I made after this, I could not ascertain that 

 anything else had been noticed. There was only a little dust in 

 one, and a small piece of bone in the other, probably the re- 

 mains of cremation. The urns were stated to have been 

 standing at the west end, and on the south side of the cists, not 

 the most usual position for such articles. The urn, fig. 1. 

 measures I5f inches in circumference at the widest part ; the 

 internal diameter at the top is 3^ ins. and the height 3|- ins.. 

 The rim, or lip, is f of an inch broad, and is ornamented with 

 transverse strokes. On the lower part of the urn are six long 

 irregular oblique strokes, lying in different directions, and some 

 of them crossing, more like scratches than the work of design. 

 The other Plate III. fig. 2, measures 18 inches in circumference 

 at the widest part ; the internal diameter is 4^ inches, and the 

 height 4f inches. The lip is f of an inch broad and is orna- 

 mented with the cable twist, or thong pattern running round it 

 in three and four lines. 



On a second visit, another cist was opened, and in it, standing 

 at the east end was an urn, Plate in., fig. 3. This has, what is 

 not very common, three perforated projections or ears, and is 

 more carefully and artistically decorated than the others. It 

 measures 16 inches in circumference ; the internal diameter 

 31 inches, and the height 3|^ inches ; the lip hardly so broad as 

 the others, but carefully ornamented, as shewn in the engraving. 

 There was nothing else found in the grave except a small bronze 

 article, every trace of its former occupant having disappeared. 

 The dimensions were 3 feet 9 inches in length, 2 feet in width, 

 and 1 foot 9 inches in depth, formed of the usual water- worn 

 slabs, but covered with two unusually heavy stone slabs, lying 

 one upon the other, the under one broken right across, and 



