EARLY MAN 



tiers, with the designs shown in the 

 urn from Revidge, only with the 

 triangular motive on the upper tier. 

 There was found in this instance also 

 an 'ornament of limestone, 4 in. long, 

 convex in front, and flat at the back,' 

 with the ends punctured — apparently 

 an armlet. 



But all these yield in point of 

 interest and detail of discovery to 

 that found on the moors at Bleasdale, 

 in the same district of north Lanca- 

 shire. There the late Mr. Jackson 

 recently discovered and explored a 

 group of prehistoric remains, placed 

 in a striking position on a knoll of 

 boulders in the middle of an amphi- 

 theatre of moorland hills, about 650 

 yards due west from Higher Fair- 

 snape Farm. Of these he has handed 

 down an exact and careful record,^ 

 which Professor Boyd Dawkins has supplemented with some illuminatory 

 notes. In the construction of the circles which enclosed some cinerary urns, 

 wood was found in this case to have supplied the place of stone. There 

 were two circles, one enclosed by and touching the other towards the east. 

 The diameter of the smaller was 75 ft., and of the larger circle twice that 



1 Lane, and Ches. Ant. Soc. xviii. 1900, pp. 1 14-124. 



Fig. 28. — Urn from Blackburn. 



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j.« Kfiaiiin rtn Plan 



Plan of Sepulchral Remains. 



aa Shawn on Plan. 



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Horizontal Scale about 34 feet = I inch. 

 Vertical Scale about 34 feet = \ inch. 



oaken Principals and Secondaries of Outer Circle, 



Fig. 29. — Plan and Section of Timber Burial Circle, &c. at Bleasdale. From L. C. A. xviii. 



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