. 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. Stone, where it was discovered some years ago. It is, aswill be seen, a fine urn, and is elaborately ornamented withincised lines. Like the Trentham urn, this one was filledwith burnt l)ones when found. The third one was dis-covered, in fragments, by Mr. Redfern, thehistorian of Uttoxeter, at Toot Hill, nearthat town. It is ornamented with indentedtwisted thongs in the usual manner. At Yoxall, some
. 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. Stone, where it was discovered some years ago. It is, aswill be seen, a fine urn, and is elaborately ornamented withincised lines. Like the Trentham urn, this one was filledwith burnt l)ones when found. The third one was dis-covered, in fragments, by Mr. Redfern, thehistorian of Uttoxeter, at Toot Hill, nearthat town. It is ornamented with indentedtwisted thongs in the usual manner. At Yoxall, some years ngo, it is recordedabout forty cinerary urns were discovered,but were, unfortunately, nearly all wantonlydestroyed. They ai)pear to have been ofthe nsuiil form, with somewhat elaboratezigzag ornaments. An urn, with tlie ujiper rim punctured. THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 7 in three rows, was also, many years ago, found at OverTean. It is interesting to note that besides the urns here en-graved and described, several discoveries of similar kindsof pottery have been made in other j^arts of Staffordshire,principally by Mr. Bateman and Mr. Carrington ; and thateven in the very centre of the potteries—at Shelton—whiledigging the foundations of the Shelton Blast Ironworks,which are now blasting the health and happiness of the in-habitants .so eflficiently, a barrow containing an urn, unfor-tunately not j^rescrved, was discovered. The next engraving shows a remarkably good cineraryurn from the neighbouring county of Derby, which will beseen to be of the same general form as those of Staflbrdshire.
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