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heads, knives and ornaments ; and it is not, I think, a forced 
conjecture which regards these as placed there for an after 
use, or adornment in a future life. Amongst the burnt 
bones, whether placed in a large urn or deposited without 
such a protection, is very frequently found a small vessel of 
pottery, commonly in shape like an earthenware salt-cellar, 
and in most cases having two or more holes pierced through 
its side, often near the top, but as frequently at the bottom* 
These have been called " incense cups," from their supposed 
use; such, however, seems an unlikely purpose. I can, 
however, offer no more reasonable conjecture, unless they 
have held some peculiar portion of the body, as for instance 
the heart. They have not been burnt with the body, at least 
I only know of one instance out of nearly a hundred where 
an incense cup has passed through the funereal fire.* As I 
said before, burial, after cremation and by inhumation, were 
contemporaneous ; I have seen several undoubted instances of 
it. In one case a large central kist, containing the unburnt 
body of a child, of not a year old, was surrounded by nine 
burnt bodies enclosed in urns. In a barrow opened by the 
Yorkshire Antiquarian Club, on Acklam Wold, the knees of 
a skeleton were found to be charred by the calcined bones of 
another body which were laid close in front of them. It is 
difficult to say which of the two modes of burial is the most 
common ; perhaps on the whole we find more instances where 
* In the burial mounds, and often in close proximity to the human remains, 
are found very generally the broken bones of animals, such as deer, oxen, and 
swine. These appear to be the relics of the feast prepared and eaten at the 
funeral; and I have traced small patches of burnt matter in barrows, too 
Email to be the spots where the body had been burnt, which may have been the 
Bpot where the feast was cooked. As in the cave-dwellings of an earlier period, 
and in the kitchen-middens of Denmai'k, the bones are invariably broken in such 
a way as to enable the marrow to be readily extracted. It is rarely that a barrow 
does not produce one or more tines of the red*deer's antler, and tusks of the 
wild boar are almost as common. 
