. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. INCENSE CUPS. 79 I met with in a barrow near Castle Howard [No. cxlviii], are twenty-seven perforations, in sets of three^ arranged vertically and at intervals over the whole ' cup.' A very similar vessel, so far as the perforations are concerned, having- four rows of small holes encircling- it, was found in a barrow with a deposit of burnt bones at Hutton Cranswick, on the wolds \ One, discovered by Sir R. Colt Hoare ^n a barr
. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. INCENSE CUPS. 79 I met with in a barrow near Castle Howard [No. cxlviii], are twenty-seven perforations, in sets of three^ arranged vertically and at intervals over the whole ' cup.' A very similar vessel, so far as the perforations are concerned, having- four rows of small holes encircling- it, was found in a barrow with a deposit of burnt bones at Hutton Cranswick, on the wolds \ One, discovered by Sir R. Colt Hoare ^n a barrow near Wood- yates, Dorsetshire, has the upper part overhanging-, and throug-li the edge of this projecting- rim (so to call it) the holes are l)iorced vertically '^ A vessel, not, however, possessing- much. Fig. 08. |. of the form of the ' incense cup,^ though found with a deposit of burnt bones inside a larg-er urn, with vertical perforations through two slightly projecting ears, was met with in a barrow [No. cliv] on Wykeham Moor, North Riding, and is figured in the sequel. Vessels somewhat similar have occurred in Ireland. Some are of very peculiar form ; for instance, three found by Sir R. Colt Hoare in the Wiltshire barrows have a grape-like pattern in relief upon them [fig. 68] ^; another, also met with by the same explorer, has a division in the middle, by which it is made into two cups, each provided with two perforations close to the division, and therefore just above the bottom of each ' Proceedings of Yorkshire Antiquarian Club; it is engraved, Reliquiae Ant. Eboracenses, by W. Bo\\^nall, p. 38. ^ Ancient Wilts, pi. xxxiii. fig. 4. ^ Figured in Ancient Wilts, pi. xi. p. 99; pi. xxiv. p. 199. Two similarly orna- mented vessels, found near Amesbury, in the same county, are engraved in the Proceedings of the Archa?ological Institute Meeting at Salisbury, p. 108, figs. 2, 3. Another occuiTod at Priddy, in Somersetshire, and is now in the British Please note th
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