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still more characteristic peculiarity of the pottery of the Anglo- 

 Saxon burial urns consists in raised knobs or bosses, arranged 

 symmetrically round them, and sometimes forming a sort of 

 ribs, as in Figs. 3 and 6 on our plate, while in the ruder ex- 

 amples they become mere round lumps, or even present only a 

 slight swelling of the surface of the vessel. 



That these vessels belong to the early Anglo-Saxon period 

 is proved beyond any doubt by the various objects, such as 

 arms, personal ornaments, etc., which are found with them, and 

 they present evident imitations both of Eoman forms and of 

 Roman ornamentation. But one of these urns has been found 

 accompanied with remarkable circumstances, which not only 



ho. i.— abtglo-saxojt potteey. 



show its relative date, but illustrate a fact in the ethnological 

 history of this early period. Among the Faussett collection of 

 Anglo-Saxon antiquities, which now forms part of the large 

 and valuable museum of Mr. Mayer, of Liverpool, there is an 

 urn which Bryan Faussett appears to have obtained from North 

 Elmham, in Norfolk, and which contained bones of a child. It 

 is represented in the accompanying group of Anglo-Saxon 

 pottery (No. I., Fig. 1), and will be seen at once to be perfectly 

 identical in character with the East Anglian sepulchral urns 

 which form our plate of Anglo-Saxon pottery. But Mr. Roach 

 Smith, in examining the various objects in the Faussett col- 



