[24] Journal of the British Archæological Association, vol. vi. p. 64.
[25] These three engravings are reproduced from Messrs. Buckman and Newmarch’s “Ancient Remains of Cirencester,” an admirable and truly useful work, to which I refer my readers for much information.
[26] It was also a common practice to place a tile as the covering of a cinerary urn.
[27] This is extremely interesting, as illustrating the custom of funeral garlands, which still obtains in some parts of our country.
[28] These glasses were made rounded or pointed at the bottom; thus they must have been filled while held, and could not without spilling have been set down till emptied. From these the name of “tumblers” takes its origin. For a drinking-cup and wine-pitcher, see our cut, Fig. [225], and for two of these “tumblers,” see Figs. [228] and [231].
[29] See notice of pot-works at King’s Newton on a later page.
[30] For an account of the pottery here discovered see the “Reliquary, Quarterly Archæological Journal and Review,” vol. ii. p. 216.
[31] Marryatt.
[32] See p. 79, ante.
[33] Arch. Journ., vol. iv. p. 29.