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 placed in various ways, so as to form an intricate pattern ; and 



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other indentations. The engravings show two excellent 

 examples, — the first from the Hay Top barrow, and the second 

 from a barrow at Grind-Low. 



The so called "Incense Cups" — a name which ought now 

 to be discarded- — are diminutive vessels which, where found 

 at all (which is seldom) are found inside the sepulchral urns, 

 placed on, or among, the calcined bones, and generally them- 

 selves also filled with burnt bones. They range from an inch 

 and a half to about three inches in height, and are sometimes 

 highly ornamented, and at others plain. 



The three examples here shown, respectively from barrows 

 on Baslow Moor, on Stanton Moor, and at Darley Dale, will 



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give a good general idea of these curious little vessels which 

 may probably not have been " incense cups " but small urns 

 to receive the ashes of an infant— perhaps sacrificed at the 



death of its mother — so as to admit 

 of being placed within the larger 

 urn containing the remains of its 

 parent. The contents of barrows 

 give incontestible evidence of the 

 practice of sacrificing not only 

 horses, dogs, and oxen, but of human beings, at the graves of 



