. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. 98 INTRODUCTION. the g-old vase found in a barrow at Rillaton, Cornwall [fig-s. 87, SSjS^'may all possibly be included in this class of sepulchral vessels. The «"drinking cups' are usually thin in the walls, very neatly mad'^ of fine paste, and generally much better fired than those of any other class of sepulchral pottery; nor do they, as a rule, contain any broken stone mixed amongst the clay, though it does sometimes oc
. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. 98 INTRODUCTION. the g-old vase found in a barrow at Rillaton, Cornwall [fig-s. 87, SSjS^'may all possibly be included in this class of sepulchral vessels. The «"drinking cups' are usually thin in the walls, very neatly mad'^ of fine paste, and generally much better fired than those of any other class of sepulchral pottery; nor do they, as a rule, contain any broken stone mixed amongst the clay, though it does sometimes occur, and then very finely pounded, almost like sand. The colour is very frequently of a pale yellowish brown, but they are often dark brown, and gradually change from that, by a greater or less admixture of red, until in some of them that colour The ornamentation upon them is very varied, though not more so perhaps than it is found to be on the ' food vessels.' A better idea how- ever of the designs upon them (as indeed is the case with all the classes of sepulchral vessels) will be obtained from the engravings than any words can give. They are almost always ornamented over the whole surface from top to bottom, sometimes to a considerable depth within the rim, and now and then on the bottom itself. I have met with one instance on the wolds of a ' drinking cup' ornamented on the bottom ; it was found near Goodmanham [No. cxvi] ; the pattern was divided into quarters by a cross [figs. 89, 90] -. ' Arch. Journal, vol. xxlv. p. 189; Evans, Stone Tmpl. p. 402. ^ One found at Kelleytborpe, East Riding, in a cist, with tLe skeleton of a man, a bronze knife-dagger, &c., is ornamented on the bottom with a cross pattern. Another from Edgefield-by-Holt, Norfolk, in the ix)ssession of Mr. Fitch, , of Nor\vich,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of t
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