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)
of a black clay, mixed with small pieces of broken shells—a kind of pottery much used for sepulchral purposes. The Fig. 236. … larger urn is of a hard and compact clay, and is beautifully thrown 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.…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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