A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Flu. .-M.—Buiio Loads, Folkton, E. K. Yorks. similar urnament but of inferior fabric. It had, however, a pecu-liarity of very rare occurrence in this country. The decorativeincisions, produced probably by a bronze pricker, have been filledin with some white material like finely powdered chalk, probablyapplied in a semi-liquid state, like the slip of Eomau and latertimes. Among the ashes covering the bones were six unl^urnt flintflakes, and amung the sarsen-stones of the cairn were many ROUND BA
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Flu. .-M.—Buiio Loads, Folkton, E. K. Yorks. similar urnament but of inferior fabric. It had, however, a pecu-liarity of very rare occurrence in this country. The decorativeincisions, produced probably by a bronze pricker, have been filledin with some white material like finely powdered chalk, probablyapplied in a semi-liquid state, like the slip of Eomau and latertimes. Among the ashes covering the bones were six unl^urnt flintflakes, and amung the sarsen-stones of the cairn were many ROUND BARROWS 63 bones of ox and pig, some teeth of oxen, two flint arrow-heads,one being barbed and unburnt, the other triangular and partiallycalcined; and the end of a boars tusk which had apparently beentashioned. In the earth above the caiin were nine sherds ofpottery, including two pieces of large thong-marked vessels, andpart ot a dnnking-cup filled in with white like the incense-. FiG. 38. — Incense-cup with rover, Aldbounie, Wilt^. II cup just mentioned, and some flakes and ehippings of flintunburnt. Much the same might be said about the material of otherRound barrows in this country. There are often signs of eaidierinterments with unburnt human bones (here indicated hj the drinking-cup), and relics of what majr be regarded as thefuneral feast, where the ox and pig were the usual viands, thebones generally split for the extraction of the marrow. Chips offlint, arrow-heads, & may have Ijeen lying on the surface whenthe adjoining soil was thrown up to form the barrow. 64 DESCRIPTION OF CASES 31-35 A small series of sepulchral pottery from Scotland is exhibitedin the lower part of Cases 29, 30. The two cinerary urns fromTealing, Forfarshire, were found within a barrow above a stonecist which contained a crouching male skeleton with cephalic indexof 73, clearly dolichocephalic (p. 19). It is possible that the burntand unburnt burials were in this case con
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