Fig. 85.
Fig. 86.
[Fig. 86], from a barrow at Monsal Dale, was found along with many other interesting relics. It is twelve inches in height, and has a deep overlapping border. When found, it was inverted over a deposit of calcined bones placed on some rough stones on the natural surface, and having among them a calcined bone pin. Near it was a large mass of limestone, and a celt-shaped instrument five inches long, with a cutting edge, formed from the lower jaw of some animal. Another excellent example is exhibited in the urn from Ballidon Moor ([fig. 87]). It is eleven and a half inches in height, and measured nine inches in diameter at the mouth. It is ornamented by patterns impressed in the soft clay from a twisted thong. It contained burnt bones; amongst them were a portion of an animal’s jaw, a fine bone pin, four inches long, rats’ bones, a fragment of pottery, and a flint arrow-head. The presence of partially burnt human bones in the sand, the discolouration of the latter, and the occurrence of calcined rats’ bones in the urns, demonstrated the fact of the corpse having been consumed upon the spot. The following engraving ([fig. 88]), exhibiting a section of the barrow, will show the position of the urn when found, and also of the other interments which it contained.[26]
Fig. 87.
Fig. 88.
