446 law: ox recent pre-historic "finds." 
observed, but they were so much decomposed that little or 
nothing could be made of them. The others seemed to be 
arranged about the large central urn and about two feet apart. 
When the earth had been cleared away from the three perfect 
urns, and before they had been removed, several photographs 
were taken of them hi situ. One of the smaller urns leaned 
a little to the south. Several pieces of flint and chert were 
dug out of the excavation. The urns and incense cups being 
removed were put into baskets and conveyed to Todmorden, 
where they were re-photographed and placed in the Free Library 
for their safe keeping. 
On July 13th, six days after the "find," the urns were 
opened at the Co-operative Hall, Todmorden, before a very large 
gathering of scientific ladies and gentlemen drawn from the 
surrounding districts. Mr. Tattersall Wilkinson, Dr. Crump, of 
Burnley, and the author were entrusted with the opening of 
the urns. 
The largest one, which was of superior make to the others, 
was the first to be operated upon. The work was tedious and 
was done in the most careful way possible. Each operator 
commenced to pick out by means of a small pocket knife the 
substances deposited in the urns, and the material w^as closely 
examined as it fell out on the table. For the first half hour 
or so nothing particular was found. The contents which had 
been so far dug out were portions of broken urns of a similar 
pattern to the urn that w^as being examined, but were not 
portions of it, and must have been placed there as filling-in 
material. Along with these urn fragments there was some dark 
brown sand, which appeared to have been burnt, quantities of 
bituminous soil, small fragments of bones, and bits of charcoal. 
As the examining party dug deeper into the urn human bones 
became more numerous and in larger fragments and of a more 
determinable character, and this went on until the urn had 
been half emptied. The rest of the contents of the urn then 
showed signs of being almost entirely calcined bones, and bone 
