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which is almost always over-hanging, or to that portion of 
the urn immediately below it. The cinerary urns appear to 
have been made especially for sepulchral purposes, whilst 
some of those which accompany unburnt bodies may very 
possibly have been originally domestic vessels. They are 
often of elegant shape and very tastefully ornamented, some- 
times having projecting pierced ears, probably to suspend 
them by, round the neck. I have never seen any glazing on 
them, and indeed, though made with great skill, as far as 
shape is concerned, the clay has not been well worked, and 
they have scarcely ever undergone sufficient baking. The 
larger vessels, and all the cinerary urns, have quantities of 
broken stone mixed with the clay. People have been accus- 
tomed to talk of them as sun-baked ; this, however, is a 
mistake, they have all undergone the action of fire. 
The urns which accompany an unburnt body have been 
considered, and with great probability, I think, to be vessels 
for containing food or drink for the use of the departed on 
his journey to another home. The North- American tribes 
deposit with the dead a bag of provisions for that purpose, 
as they also bury with them their arms and ornaments, and 
we may well suppose the Britons to have used a similar 
custom and with a like object ; nor should I be disposed to 
deny the same use to the urns which are associated with a 
burnt body, but which do not contain the bones. Over the 
body or bodies (for several are sometimes found together) has 
been raised a mound, similar to that which covers the burnt 
bodies. These generally are placed upon high ground, often 
on the ridge of the hill or just below it, and we can scarcely 
avoid the thought that, as the arrow was laid by the hunter- 
warrior's side, or the necklace was hung roimd the neck of 
her whom in life it adorned, for use or ornament in another 
world, so the chief was laid where his eye might range over 
the valley where he had ruled, or over the hills where the 
