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 ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS of shaped on the wheel, and imperfectly fired, but they differed in their shape and decoration. They were more or less globular with contracted mouths forms suggestive of being barbaric copies of the familiar jars used by the Romans for cremated remains. The decoration consisted of pushed-out bosses, of incised lines, and of impressed dots, circles and other markings from small stamps or punches. A number of the King's Newton urns were figured by Mr. Jewitt in the account of this cemetery given by him in the Reliquary. The mouths were usually covered with flat stones, and very rarely were the urns inverted. The interments occur singly, or, as just intimated, in groups or cemeteries. When occurring singly they are either covered with their own mounds or have been introduced into already existing mounds. In the cemeteries mounds are rarely discernible, but it is probable that each grave was originally covered by one. As these graves are usually close together, these mounds could never have been large, and so would readily fall victims to the progress of cultivation. There are published descriptions of about twenty isolated barrows of the period which have been investigated in Derbyshire. The mound, in every case where the material is stated, is described as of earth or clay (always a sign of lateness in Derbyshire) with a few stones or none at all ; in size ranging from 18 to 41 feet in diameter, but mostly from 33 to 36 feet, so that on the average these mounds are smaller than those of the Bronze Age. A slight ditch surrounded the foot of one at Benty Grange, 1 a feature which may have been general in these barrows. In every case the grave over and for which the mound was raised and it may be mentioned here that these barrows do not appear to have been used for secondary interments was a more or less shallow depression in the natural soil usually in the centre of the site. Occasionally a few large stones were piled over it ; more frequently it was filled or covered with puddled earth or clay. It has been suggested that in the prepara- tion of this earth or clay some corrosive ingredient was introduced which is responsible for the frequent presence of thin ochreous seams and the extremely decayed condition of the human bones when in contact with it. The interments of these barrows were, so far as is known, all un- burnt. Around many of them were found distinct traces of decayed wood, indicating that the graves were either lined with planks, or that the corpse was deposited in a chest or coffin ; and from the traces of leather, woollen cloth and linen, and the presence of buckles, fibula?, weapons and objects of personal adornment, we may infer that the bodies were consigned to their last rest in their ordinary attire. A similar number of inhumated interments of this period have been found as secondary burials in barrows of greater age (mostly of the Bronze Age) in Derbyshire. In the mode of burial and the accompaniments they precisely resembled those just described, except that their graves had been cut into the pre-existing mounds instead of in the natural soil. 1 Ten Tears' Diggings, p. 28. 267