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 Patterns upon Cinerary Urns from Daruen. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE ^t.,ne circles which here and there, as at Anglezarke and in places on the Extwistle and Lancaster moors, give indication of tumuli which have disip- p eared from the surface. At Darwen, further to the iinrth on the same upland, several burials are recorded. the grounds of White Hall w^as a mound 30 yds. in diameter, and of a height about 10 ft. or 12 ft. maximum, above the contour of the ground. The mound is described as ' na- tural.' In it were ten distinct inter- ments, some being burnt bones without urns or cist ; others in urns, one of which was in an inverted position. On the top of each of the cinerary urns was a rough flat stone surrounded and covered by small stones carefully filled in. The cinerary urns are mostly of the two-tier variety, with rectilinear decoration. The variety of designs found in association is of some special interest, and is illustrated in the sketch appended, hg. 26. One of them with punctuated decoration is less common, and shown in fig. 27. An incense-cup, plain, and bronze implement, presumably a knife-dagger, much corroded, were found in the same place. From the height of Revidge, above Blackburn, comes also a characteristic burial of the early Bronze Age, with a simple urn of two decorated tiers and overhanging rim (fig. 28), a bone pin about 2 in. long, and a bronze pin-head. The whole seems to have been enclosed as usual below a mound, while the urn was found inverted in a bed of sand. Further north again, upon the moors around Lancaster, burials of the Bronze Age are even more numerous than elsewhere recorded. In one spot were found a number of urns, about 2 ft. below the surface, lying in pairs at intervals of a yard, in a row which extended east and west. One was enclosed in four flag-stones, with a fifth at the top. A bone pin, ' bronze arrow-head and spear-head,' are recorded among the deposit. The same alignment was noticed in another instance, at a place distant about a quarter of a mile, where one of the urns has two 242 Fig. 27. — Urn with Pvnctuatec Decoration from Dapwen.