The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . dies and possibly contain-ing, or perpetuating the idea of, actual food intendedfor the use of the defunct. There Is a striking simi-larity between the cremation urns that occur in theAnglian districts of northern and eastern Enolandand urns used for similar purposes in parts of theContinent opposite our own shores, and preservedIn collections like those at Hanover and drew attention to this long ago and the com-parisons have lately been worked out by Dr. of alarge number of these urns thatthe sides have been
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . dies and possibly contain-ing, or perpetuating the idea of, actual food intendedfor the use of the defunct. There Is a striking simi-larity between the cremation urns that occur in theAnglian districts of northern and eastern Enolandand urns used for similar purposes in parts of theContinent opposite our own shores, and preservedIn collections like those at Hanover and drew attention to this long ago and the com-parisons have lately been worked out by Dr. of alarge number of these urns thatthe sides have been forced out in parts while theclay was wet so as to form bosses or flutes. Theyare hand-formed, about seven to ten inches high,and are commonly ornamented with Incised lines orwithslmple geometrical patterns made by Impressingsmall wooden stamps upon the wet clay. Thosein which cremated bones were actually found are ofcourse the most interesting. Fig. 8i shows acharacteristic specimen from Shropham in is ten inches high. 158 PLATE XXI.
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