. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. ar Youlgreave. It was six inchesand three quarters high, and carefully ornamented withindented twisted-thong patterns. It lay in the cist, as isusual in the barrows of this district, in front of the skeleton,which, as is generally the case, lay in a contracted position,with its knees drawn up, on its left side. The next one 10 THE WEDGWOODS. shows a different kind of ornamentation, still produced by
. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. ar Youlgreave. It was six inchesand three quarters high, and carefully ornamented withindented twisted-thong patterns. It lay in the cist, as isusual in the barrows of this district, in front of the skeleton,which, as is generally the case, lay in a contracted position,with its knees drawn up, on its left side. The next one 10 THE WEDGWOODS. shows a different kind of ornamentation, still produced by-twisted thongs. This beautiful vessel was found in a barrowat Hay Top, Monsal Dale, along with a skeleton and otherinteresting remains. The food-vessels—small urns so called because they wereapparently intended to contain an offering of food—varyvery considerably both in form and in character of decora-tion, from the rudest to the most elaborate. These vessels areusually wide at the mouth, tapering gradually downwards,until quite small at the bottom. They are formed of clay ofmuch the same quality as the cinerary urns, and are bakedto about the same degree of hardness. A very plain and. rude example from Trentham, Staffordshire, is here shown;and for the sake of comparison some other elaborately orna-mented examples from Derbyshire barrows, and one fromWetton, Staffordshire, with loops at its sides, are alsogiven. The first of these, on the next page, is a beautiful vesselwith ears, somewhat richly ornamented with is five and a half inches high, and was found with askeleton in the usual contracted position, along witli a bonepin, and other interesting remains. THE EAKLY POTTERIES OF STAbTORDSHlRE. 11 The other engravings exhibit, two vessels from an interest-ing discovery made in a barrow on Hitter Hill,* where they
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