Grave-mounds and their contents; a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods (1870)
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William, 1816-1886 · London : Groombridge · leaf 116
m the annexedengravings. The principal characteristic of the cinerary urns found inDerbyshire and Staffordshire, and in some other districts,is a deep overlapping border or rim, and their ornamentation,always produced by indenting or pressing twisted thongsinto the soft clay, or by simple… … of ways, or of herring-bone or zigzag lines, or of reticu-lations, or of rows of punctures, etc., etc. This ornamen-tation is usually confined to the upper portion of the urn,including the over-lapping rim and the neck; and in manyinstances the upper edge and the inside of the rim were inlike…
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