Fig. 15.—Cleatham.
The more usual of the forms will be best understood by the engraved examples, selected from the proceeds of many barrow openings in different parts of the kingdom.
Fig. 16.—Broad Down.
Fig. 17.—Tredenny.
The four urns (Fig. [2], [3], [4], and [6]) are characteristic examples of the variety with the broad or deep overlapping border or rim. The first of these has the pattern incised in the soft clay, that on the rim being in diagonal lines, and the central portion reticulated. The second has the herring-bone or chevron ornament around its rim, and the third example is ornamented with horizontal and vertical lines alternately on its rim, and zig-zagged, filled in with horizontal and crossed, lines on the central part. The lines in this are all produced by indenting a twisted thong into the clay while in a soft state. Fig. [16] has its ornamentation indented with twisted thongs in “herring-bone” pattern both on the outside and inside the rim and around the central part. Fig. [8] has a central band as well as overhanging lip. Figs. [11] and [13], from Dorsetshire barrows,[3] are of different form, the ornamentation consisting of incised lines and impressed thumbmarks, &c. The remaining engravings also give excellent examples of other forms and varieties of these sepulchral vessels. Figs. [9] and [10] have the upper part curved, and almost approaching to cup shape, and Fig. [7] has raised bands; in Fig. [14] the upper parts are hollowed out; and in Fig. [15] the upper part is marked with lozenges. Figs. [19] and [23] are ornamented with indented dots produced by pressing the end of a stick or other substance into the soft clay. Fig. [23] has these dots in zig-zag lines.
Fig. 18. Fig. 19. Fig. 20. Fig. 21.