OP THE BBITTSH PERIOD AT WAPKSHATTGH. 167 



by, which we ourselves behold. And though we with the Chris- 

 tianised Cymro can no longer conceive such a burial honourable, 

 whose proverb it became to wish in anger one against another, 



" Ah ! cam, ar dy wyneb," 



" Ah ! a barrow on thy face," 

 or, "May'st thou lack Christian burial;" — though the barrow 

 has long been assigned only to the mortal remains of the criminal, 

 the suicide, and the heathen, as Shakespeare most fitly represents 

 the priest in "Hamlet" saying of the lost Ophelia, 



" For charitable prayers, 

 Shards, flints, and pebbles, should be thrown on ber," 



yet we must not forget that such poor memorials of affection were 

 most suggestive to the human hearts that mourned around this 

 their lasting monument, it may be, five and twenty centuries ago, 

 and who saw in such observances — in the flaming pyre, the 

 spark-emitting flint, the setting and rising sun,"* 4 even in the 

 "shards, flints, and pebbles" cast upon the funeral barrow, a 

 faint but welcome recognition of man's renewal and revival to 

 another, and, perhaps, higher life, when his pilgrimage on earth 

 was done. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XY. 



Fig. 1. Smalesmouth urn. Height of original 7 inches ; width at mouth 



5f inches ; width at bottom 2f inches. 

 Fig. 2. Barrasford- Green urn. Height 3| inches ; width at top 5 inches ; 



width at bottom 2f inches. 

 Fig. 3. Fragment of large urn (half the true size) from Warkshaugh 



barrow. Height of urn 13 inches; width below rim 17 inches. 

 Fig. 4. Urn from "Warkshaugh barrow, eastern cist. Height 6 inches ; 



width at top 7^ inches ; width at bottom 3J inches. 



* Professor Max Miiller, in his interesting Essay on " Comparative Mythology," which 

 he, more than any other, has aided to raise to the dignity of a science, thinks (Oxford Essays, 

 1856, p. 87,) that the elementary character of the pagan gods in its original conception br- 

 each branch of the great Aryan or Indo-Germanic race was almost always solar. He differ? 

 from Lauer and Kiihn, who seem to connect that conception too exclusively with the fleeting 

 phenomena of clouds, and storms, and thunder. Compare for the prevalence of the same 

 heliacal worship among the early Semetic races, the words of the patriarch of TJz : Job xxxii. 

 26—28. 



