. 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. county, Derbyshire, will show the form of the drinking-cups of this district. The first one was found in 1851, ina barrow called Bee Low, near 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 p
. 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. county, Derbyshire, will show the form of the drinking-cups of this district. The first one was found in 1851, ina barrow called Bee Low, near 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 botto
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