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Archaeologia cantiana . zed as be-longing to a not uncommon type of Celtic 1 may be compared with an urn from Belhevie,in Fifeshire, figured in Horse Perales,* while thehandles are a common feature in Dorset, Devon, andCornish types. Fig. 2, although more regularly made,is not unlike an urn found at Cleatham in Lincoln-shire. The largest of the small cups on Plate II. belongsto a class which may be designated as miniatureurns, and seems in this instance to have been usedfor some such purpose as that to which the so-calledfood vessels were applied. It closely resembles acup found i
Archaeologia cantiana . zed as be-longing to a not uncommon type of Celtic 1 may be compared with an urn from Belhevie,in Fifeshire, figured in Horse Perales,* while thehandles are a common feature in Dorset, Devon, andCornish types. Fig. 2, although more regularly made,is not unlike an urn found at Cleatham in Lincoln-shire. The largest of the small cups on Plate II. belongsto a class which may be designated as miniatureurns, and seems in this instance to have been usedfor some such purpose as that to which the so-calledfood vessels were applied. It closely resembles acup found inside an urn at Matlock in 1848, f and an * PI. xxix., fig. 7. f See Batemans Ten Yeais Diggings. The vase is there calledan incense cup. In the appendix to that work, p. 281, a small urnis engraved, which contained incinerated remains. Mr. Bateman sup-posed that these miniature urns are of a later period than, and super-seded the use of, large urns. Neither of these uses seems apphcable tothe specimen before us. Il^ ^.. Tieijhi ZYz in^:/i^. Fi^: 6. PI. II 2^1^:4.
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