EARLY MAN 



90-0 



BROAD DOWN 



;:'^i^k|S^&> 



120-0 



BROAD DOWN 



an average thickness of ^ in. One side of the vessel has two small perforations. This and similar 

 vessels have been termed * incense cups ' — an imaginative description, at any rate in this case, for the 

 cup served the purpose of a diminutive cinerary urn. 



Upton Pyne, near Exeter. — A barrow here was opened by Mr. Kirwan in 1870 and 

 yielded a bronze dagger and pin which were resting on a deposit of charred wood and burnt bones ; 

 an even smaller ornamented vessel of hand-made pottery of the so-called ' incense cup ' type, contain- 

 ing a snuff-coloured coarse-grained dust, the nature of which was apparently not ascertained ; the 

 component parts of an amulet or necklace, consisting of flat beads of perforated shale, with a fusi- 

 form central bead of the same 

 material ; portion of the stalk 

 of an encrinite which appa- 

 rently did duty as a bead ; two 

 beads of shale ornamented with 

 chevron patterns, and a red 

 bead of fired clay. 



Berry Down Barrows, 

 Berrynarbor. — In one of 

 these barrows an inverted 

 broken urn was found with 

 the large diameter of 19 in., 

 together with some of its frag- 

 ments. The mouth of the 

 vessel downward for about one- 

 third of its original height was 

 ornamented with a chevron 

 pattern enclosed within two 

 sets of triple incised lines run- 

 ning around the circumference 

 of the urn, which is furnished 

 with two lugs. The vessel 

 was hand-made, of coarse ware, 

 and, as usual, imperfectly fired. 



In May, 1883, Mr. 

 George Doe and others ex- 

 amined two barrows situated 

 in a field which was once part 

 of Berry Down. In one a 

 deposit of fine clay streaked 

 with charcoal was observed, 

 and the other yielded another 

 inverted sepulchral urn cover- 

 ing a deposit of burnt bones — 

 some of these were recognized 

 as human. 



Plymouth. — A kistvaen 

 containing a large urn, mouth 

 upwards, was found in Still- 

 man Street, and reported by 

 Mr. Francis Brent in 1881.^ 

 It was supposed to have con- 

 tained bone ashes. 



Halwill. — A barrow in 

 this parish was examined by 

 the writer in 1895. It is 

 situated in a field known as 



Burrow Park Tolly, and lies close to the road leading from Halwill Railway Station to the 

 Manor House. A quarry has been opened (now disused) on the eastern side of the barrow, 

 taking a considerable piece out of the circumference, but without in any way disturbing the central 

 portion of the monument which stands 5 ft. high in the centre above ground-level. A trench was 

 driven, 20 ft. long, 12 ft. wide, and 5 ft. deep, in a westerly direction and to the centre of the 

 barrow. This disclosed a platform in the centre of small flat stones 12ft. long, 6 ft. wide, and 1 ft. 



70'-0' ->• 



BROAD DOWN . 



.40.0' 

 HAMEUDON 



f/lfor TO SCHL E} 



-60-Q 

 CITTISHAM 



HILL 



<- j;o.o- * 



CITTISHAM HILL . 



Fig. 18. 



—Sections of Barrows on Broad Down and Gittisham 

 Hill, {^ee page ■^61 for reference to Hameldon.) 



' Trans. Devon. Assoc, xiii, 99-101. 

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