186 The Grave-mounds of Derbyshire, and their Contents. 



circle of the barrow was considerably extended, as will be seen 

 by the engraving. 



Another excellent example of the inverted position of the 

 sepulchral urns is here given, from one of the cists in Roily- 

 Low, near Wardlow. I have chosen it because when found by 

 Mr. Bateman, it had received a considerable fracture on one 

 side, and thus showed the burnt bones which it contained, 

 through the aperture.* The urn was about sixteen inches in 

 height, and twelve inches 



in diameter, and was orna- 

 mented in the usual man- 

 nerwith indentationspro- 

 duced by a twisted thong. 

 It was inverted over a 

 deposit of calcinedhuman 

 bones, among which was 

 a large red deer's horn, 

 also calcined. The urn 

 was so fragile, as to be 

 broken to pieces on re- 

 moval. 



It is not unusual in the 

 Derbyshire barrows for 

 the interments to be made 

 in stone cists, and these of course, vary both in size and in 

 form, according to the nature of the spot chosen, and to the 

 requirements of each particular case. The cists are usually 

 formed of rough slabs of limestone or grit-stone, set up edge- 

 ways on the surface of the ground, so as to form a sort of irre- 

 gular-square, rhomboidal, or other shaped compartment. In 

 this the interment, whether of the body itself or of the urn con- 

 taining the calcined bones, has been made, and then the cist has 

 been covered with one or more flat stones, over which the 

 cairn of stones has been raised. Some barrows contain several 

 such cists, in each of which a single, or in some instances a 

 double, interment has been made. An excellent example of 

 this is afforded by the accompanying engraving, which shows 

 the ground plan of a barrow opened by myself, and my friend 

 Mr. Lucas, f on Hitter Hill. The shaded portions of the plan, 



* Although I am describing the position in which the urns have been placed, 

 it must not for a moment, be supposed that they are often found in a perfect state, 

 or in the position in which they have originally been placed. On the contrary, the 

 urns are usually very much crushed, and not [.infrequently from pressure of the 

 superincumbent mass of stones and earth, are found on their sides, and crushed 

 flat. 



t For an illustrated account of this barrow see " The Eeliquary, Quarterly 

 Archaeological Journal and Keview," vol iii. p. 159, et. seq., from which these 

 engravings are borrowed ; and " Crania Britannica." 



