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entered when the barrows were temporarily plundered and 
filled up again. The former species also occurred at a con- 
siderable depth below stalagmite in the Dowkerbottom cave, 
near an infant's grave. Could they have been interred 
with the original occupants of the barrow as articles of food, 
or for some other superstitious rite at present unknown to 
us ? Above the whole, a considerable number of flat masses 
of limestone had been placed, apparently to form a cairn. On 
the east side of the tumulus, about three feet from the 
surface, a layer of calcined bones, perfectly white, were dis- 
covered, showing that a separate interment, evidently after 
cremation, had taken place. 
From the fragmentary condition and heterogeneous assem- 
blage of objects in this tumulus I suspected that it had 
been previously disturbed, and the bones and other remains 
thrown in again by the ruthless treasure-seekers. 
A careful examination of the fragments of pottery found 
therein indicates that originally there had been five vessels, 
of different sizes and varied form arid ornamentation. 
Two, which I have been able partially to restore, were 
what Sir Colt Hoare terms drinking-cups, and are, as I am 
informed by the Rev. Wm. Greenwell, of Durham, rare ex- 
amples of the kind. The portions of two others differ from 
the preceding ; one, which has been also a drinking-cup, 
having the herring-bone or lozenge- shaped pattern on the 
upper part, and below parallel perpendicular lines separated 
by broad transverse plain bands ; while the fourth fragment is 
a much stronger vessel, a cinerary urn; the fifth resembling 
the coarse black Roman pottery, with indications of burning. 
The number of apparently independent fragments of dif- 
ferent urns, mixed with the bones and chippings of flint, is a 
curious circumstance, affording a somewhat conclusive evi- 
dence that in many instances they are not the portions of 
urns which had been subsequently broken, as then the con- 
