Cinerary Urns. 



The variations of the ornamentation upon earthenware 

 vessels found in British barrows has only lately been 

 thoroughly recognised, and in the case of the beakers or 

 drinking vessels the Hon. J. Abercromby has recently^" very 



Fig. 4. 



carefully examined and classified a great number of British 

 examples according to their shape, ornamentation or associated 

 relics. Whether all his conclusions will be accepted or not, the 



* Proc. Soc. Antiq. of Scotland. 



Naturalist, 



