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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 199

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larger urn is of a hard and compact clay, and is beautifullythrown on the wheel. These examples are entirely de-void of ornament. A good example of this form will beseen in the centre of the group (fig. 230), but in this instance SEPULCHRAL URNS. 169 the urn is covered with a reticulated ornament.… … formed of a fine reddish-brown clay, and is ornamentedwith slip in an unusual manner. It measures 3^ inchesonly in height, and the same in diameter at the mouth. Fig. 238. Fig- 239.

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