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AT BROUGHTON, LINCOLNSHIRE. 345 and just fitting into the larger one. (See Avoodcut.) This appeared to answer the purpose of a cover, and to have been placed as a protection to the burnt bones on which it rested. The soil, as well as bracken roots, having penetrated between the two urns, gave the whole a very compact form. At first the deposit looked as if the urn had been reversed (in the usual mode of burial) until the whole was cleared of soil and roots. On being lifted out, we were much struck by the unusual appearance of these urns, never having met with any similar interment, where one urn formed a cover for the other. No mention is made in Sir R. Colt Iloare's work of any such custom noticed in Wiltshire tumuli, nor do 1 think that it is described by any other writer, although small vessels, generally described as drinking cups, are sometimes found deposited within larger urns, in British barrows in this country. The height of this urn is 13 in., diam, at the base 4 in., from which its form dilates for 7-^ in. ; after which the sides fall in, for 3 in. On this part, a pattern is imjjressed or scored, consisting of five horizontal lines, alternately with seven perpendicular lines of the same. Above this, a pro- jecting band, three inches in depth, appears, with two rows of the chevron ornament impressed thereon, wuth a narrow scoring of half an inch above this, running round the top. Each line is formed b}^ small diagonal markings, such as might have been produced by impressing a piece of coarsely twisted rope upon the clay, when in a soft state. The inside slopes off half an inch from the upper edge, round which the same pattern runs in a diagonal direc- tion. This urn w^as nearly filled with burnt bones, and, on examining these remains, no signs of any cloth or brass pin w^as found. A rough angular piece of flint was found, such as might be chipped and fashioned to serve as a small lance or arrow head (see wood- cut) ; it measured Ij in. in length ; together with a piece of bronze, much decayed, in the form of an arrow-head, but differing in form from those of fiint, having a narrow tongue to fix it to the shaft. This curious little relic measures in its present state 2 in. in length. The leaf-shaped blade is thin, and hua Fragment of ^Uex. Orig. tin.