. 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. 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 foun
. 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. 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 It was discovered, along with many interesting relics, in abarrow at Monsal Dale, where it was inverted over a depositof calcined bones, placed on surface stones, and a bone pin wasffound among the remains. Two other urns, a ]iart of a mos<interesting discovery of five such vessels and other remainsin a barrow at Darley Dale, are also shown on the engra-vings on next page. They will be seen to vary somewhat 8 THE WEDGWOODS.
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