Sheppard: Prehistoric Remains from Lincolnshire. 137 



The other example (No. 78) is from Alloa, Clackmannan. 

 It is 12J inches high, and bears many points of resemblance 

 to the smaller of the Kir ton Lindsey cinerary urns. Like it, 

 it has a broad collar, ornamented by a herring-bone design, 

 this being the only ornament on the vase. Others showing 

 similar ornamentation have also been found on the Yorkshire 

 Wolds, and are described by Messrs. Mortimer and Greenwell 

 in their respective volumes. 



In addition to the three vases from Kirton Lindsey, we have 

 two fragments of British cinerary urns from the site near South 



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stone Weapons from Lincolnshire. 



Ferriby, which has yielded such a wealth of Roman remains.* 

 These fragments, which bear the characteristic ornament, 

 together with other specimens, indicate that the spot was 

 occupied by the Britons before the arrival of the Romans. 



Stone Implements. — The largest is a perforated axe- 

 hammer, made from some igneous rock, which has probably 

 been obtained from the Drift. The felspars have decomposed, 

 leaving the surface covered with irregular pittings, which are 

 also shown within the perforation for the shaft, but not to such 



* See T. Sheppard, ' Notes on a Collection of Roman Antiquities from 

 South Ferriby, in North Lincolnshire ' (Trans. Hull Scient. and F. Nat. 

 Club, vol. iii., pt. 4, 1906, pp. 247-264. Also Hull Museum Publications 

 Nos. 38 and 39). 



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