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drinking- cups, but in form it was much more elegant. It was 

 probably too much injured to bear the casualties of seventy years, 

 and there is not even a fragment of it in the present Stourhead 

 Collection. 



Funereal Urn from Durrington, Wilts, found by 

 Mr. Cunnington, November, 1803. 



The above engraving represents a fine Ancient British urn, be- 

 longing to the Stourhead Collection, which has hitherto been un- 

 deserved. It is not mentioned in " Ancient Wiltshire/' nor indeed 

 had it any label or other means of identification attached to it. 

 But for the fortunate circumstances that Mr. Crocker's drawing and 

 a MS. account of it are preserved, in Miss Cunnington's possession, 

 its history would have been altogether lost. 



It was found in a barrow on the edge of Durrington Down, in 

 November, 1803. 



This barrow is No. 69 in the " Map of the Environs of Stone- 

 henge/' "Ancient Wilts/' p. 170, and is mentioned in "Tumuli 

 Wiltunenses," p. 27, as having been opened by Mr. Cunnington " at 

 a prior period." His MS. note is as follows " The barrow was 

 40ft. in diameter, and not more than lain, in elevation; in it 

 we found, in a neat cist, cut in the solid chalk, a fine urn (see 



