184 P re-historic Remains in East YorJisiiire. 



With reg-ard to the earthenware vessels : these can be 

 roug-hly classified into four varieties, viz.: — (i) Cinerary urns, 

 usually of larg^e size and containing" cremated human bones ; 

 (2) food vessels of smaller size, somewhat in the form of 

 a truncated cone ; these frequently contain remains, probably 

 of food, which have been buried with the interment ; (3) the 

 so-called * drinking-cups,' cylindrical vessels g-enerally hig-hly 

 ornamented, which rarely contain any foreig"n matter ; and 

 (4) incense cups, small vessels found in association with 

 cremated interments. Whilst the vessels can be classified into 

 easily distinguishable types, occasionally examples are found of 

 very unusual form, and of these East Yorkshire has produced 

 a very fair series. On Plate IX. is given a representation of 

 a food vase of an altogether unique type, which was found in 

 a barrow on land known as Wayrham, on Painsthorpe Wold. 

 Mr. Mortimer considers this vessel to be possibly a type of the 

 domestic pottery of the Britons, which is very rarely found in 

 the burial mounds. In the same barrow a food vase of some- 

 what unusual form, shown in Fig. E, Plate VII., was discovered. 

 In Plate X., Fig. L, is figured a semi-globular vessel, supplied 

 with four perforated feet. This occurred in a barrow on Acklam 

 Wold. 



Amongst the implements of flint several very fine examples 

 have been met with. On Plate VI., Fig. B, is figured a polished 

 flint axe head, found together with quite a large collection of 

 valuable specimens, in Duggleby Howe, an exceptionally large 

 burial mound on Towthorpe Wold. The same barrow^ yielded 

 an object of polished flint of extraordinary thinness and delicacy, 

 figured on Plate VII., Fig. D. Plate VI., Fig. A, is a repre- 

 sentation of a very fine flint dagger found at Garton Slack, 

 whilst on Plate X., Figs. I and K, are two flint spear-heads 

 of unusually fine workmanship from Towthorpe and Calais 

 Wold respectively. On Plate VII., Fig. G, is a very fine flint 

 knife from Painsthorpe Wold. The Duggleby Howe tumulus 

 also yielded a hammer-head made from a piece of an antler of 

 the Red Deer (Plate VII., Fig. F), and a curved bone pin 

 (Plate VI., Fig. C). 



CINERARY URNS. 



The recent issue of the 'Bradford Scientific Journal' contains 

 a photograph of a cinerary urn, which we are permitted to 

 reproduce. It was found on ^>aildon Moor whilst making 

 excavations for an extension of a g"olf course. It w^as in 



Naturalist, 



