A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND 
the pieces lost, so that it is uncertain to which class it belonged. Canon 
Greenwell records a drinking cup, as found in a cist in the parish of 
Castle Carrock, near Brampton; the cist which contained it was found 
accidentally, and the urn was broken up in order that each man working 
in the field might have a piece. From some of these pieces the Canon 
was able to make out its size, form and ornamentation. It was of the 
second class of drinking cups just mentioned, about 7$ inches high, and 
52 inches wide at the mouth. 
It was ornamented with narrow encircling bands, defined by a grooved line on 
each side of them, every fourth band having upon it short sloping lines, these being 
arranged upon the bands alternately from right to left and from left to right (British 
Barrows, p. 379): 
The cist contained the body of an old man, laid on the left side, with 
the head to north-east, having one arm extended and the other laid 
across the chest. The drinking cup was behind the head. 
As allusion has been made more than once to the tumulus at Old 
Parks, in the parish of Kirkoswald, it may be desirable to give here a 
detailed account of that tumulus, and of its exploration, particularly as 
some features of singular interest were revealed. The mound or tumulus 
was situated in a field on Sir Richard Musgrave’s farm of Old Parks, 
Kirkoswald, called ‘ Low Field,’ a name which was taken by the few 
who knew it to refer to the position of the field itself, and not to any 
mound or burial place in it; the mound, indeed, was by many supposed 
to be a mere clearance heap, and it is probable that it had in modern 
times been used as such, which might account for the irregular outline. 
It was sold in 1892 to the County Council of Cumberland for road 
metal. The mound was roughly oval, with a longer diameter of 80 feet 
and a shorter of 63 feet, the longer diameter running east and west. Its 
height above the level of the adjacent ground was about 4 feet, and it 
was somewhat depressed in the centre. AQ large tree grew a little within 
the circumference of the mound on the south side. The work was 
commenced in the autumn of 1892, and about 30 cartloads of stones 
were removed from the extreme circumference of the mound on the 
north side. During the removal an incense cup was found, also some 
fragments of a large urn, and some bits of calcined bone. The tenant 
of the farm, Mr. William Potter, C.C. for the Edenhall division of 
Cumberland, immediately drew the attention of the present writer to 
these discoveries. Some excavation was consequently made in the centre 
of the mound, where a few large slabs of stone were lying about. A 
large earthfast stone was exposed, which was taken to be part of a ruined 
cist. On it a curious mark or grooving was observed. ‘Two or three 
vertebre and a fragment of a skull were found, none of them human. A 
little charcoal and stones reddened by fire were also discovered. After 
this the work of leading away the stones was suspended for a very 
considerable time, until the autumn of 1893, when it was resumed under 
the careful supervision of Mr. Potter, while photographs were taken 
from time to time of the mound. ‘Towards the end of 1893 a second 
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