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each kind. The paper is illustrated by no fewer than two 

 hundred process blocks, shewing the types of funeral vases 

 from different parts of Britain. From this memoir we gather 

 that the Kirton Lindse}/ vases are of what the Hon. J. Aber- 

 cromby calls the ' Overhanging Rim type.' This he considers- 

 was in use in Britain from about 800 or 900 B.C., and probably 

 was in vogue five or six centuries. The type is considered to» 

 have died out about 300 B.C., ' a date which seems to syn- 

 chronise with the first invasions of south and east Yorkshire 

 immigrants of the La Tene period.' 



Cinerary Urn from Pickering, Cinerary Urn from Alloa, 



Yorks. Clackmannan. 



By the courtesy of the author, we are able to reproduce 

 two of his illustrations, which show a remarkable resemblance 

 to the Kirton Lindsey vases. The first (numbered ' 60 ') is. 

 from Pickering, Yorkshire, and was secured by Thomas Bate- 

 man,* whose description reads : — ' A small cinerary urn, nine 

 inches high, 6 J diameter, with a border decorated with vertical 

 lines, the part immediately beneath with rows of small star- 

 like punctures.' The vase is more cylindrical than the larger 

 of the Kirton Lindsey examples, but this may be partly due 

 to its smaller size. The ornamentation, however, (the triangles, 

 round the collar, and the herring-bone below, and then the 

 row of ' small star-like punctures ') makes the resemblance 

 between the vases ver}^ remarkable. 



* ' Ten Years' Diggings,' 1861, p. 237. 



Naturalist, 



