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formed of the same coloured and tempered paste as the last- 

 described specimen, but has been ornamented, not by a pointed 

 stick, but by a small flat piece of wood or bone having three 

 notches cut in the end which, when pressed in the wet clay, left 

 four holes of square outline. This process of indentation was 

 continued round the cup to form the horizontal lines and the 

 confines of the lozenge-shaped panels, the interiors of which and 

 the middle and lower zones of ornamentation were afterwards 

 impressed with numerous marks made by the end of a tool of 

 oval section notched in the middle, the same punch being used 

 throughout. 



The cup is illustrated in Fig. 2, from which it will be noticed 

 that it is not so elegantly shaped as Fig. 1. 



The crushing of this vessel has furnished a most instructive 

 lesson in the manufacture of Bronze Age pottery. The pieces on 

 one side, which had evidently been lying uppermost, were disinte- 

 grated, and showed that after the base had been completed its edge 

 was brought up thin, or to a feather edge on the outside ; and a 

 thin collar of clay was then formed with its lower edge bevelled 

 off to form a feather edge on the inside. This was applied to the 

 ready-formed base and the edges pressed together. This process 

 was repeated four times, until the necessary height was reached, 

 the top of each succeeding collar being shaped like the top of the 

 base. The writer remembers while living in a Ba-Eolong village in 

 the Orange Eiver Colony, watching women make pots in exactly 

 the same way. Thus it may be said of one side of this pot, where 

 water had for centuries soaked over it, that it had not been broken 

 but had come apart at the old joints. Traces of this method of 

 pot making may be observed in fragments illustrated in various 

 publications, but as far as can be gathered the reason has not before 

 been noticed. 



Ln August, 1908, the same men, working under parallel con- 

 ditions, turned up the remains of a third interment of like character, 

 but unfortunately much scattered at some former time (of which 

 more later). The few remaining bones were those of a young 

 person about 12 years of age, and amongst them were four frag- 

 ments of a large drinking cnp of the same material and temper as 



