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and blackened with flame. Under these remains lay a brass lance or spear head in very good pre- servation. About two feet to the south of this cavity, on the level of the common soil, a large urn was discovered, its mouth turned downwards, and containing upwards of three parts of a bushel of fine ashes, small charred wood, and very small fragments of bones; the latter so compleatlv burned that they crumbled to atoms on brine touched. The urn had a double rim, was neatly ornamented, of a lighter colour and better burned than those generally found in similar sanation-. The incumbent pressure had cracked it in several places, and part of the upper rim was forced oil and broken; the spear or lance head resembles in shape some found by Stukcly, in his researches in the neighbourhood oi Stonelicnov; but is or neater workmanship, andrnore elegant form, bhe material appeared to be a whitish brass.

We were glad once more to refresh our eye with the richness of the mcadov :, and the wavmg oi I he woods, as we proceeded to the- westward, and approached the fertile environs oi the town < i C.alne, where Amalthea has scattered [lie cum, am of her horn with the most liberal hand. The town also claims attention from its pretensions to high antiquity, being oi the Saxon age, and one

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