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Extract of a Letter from the Rev. Henry Crowe to John Homfrav, Read Nov. 8, 1798. " In levelling a barrow on Buxton Common, about nine miles IN. E. of Norwich, the workmen found at nine or ten feet from the furface a few bones, and near them the large urn, (PI. XXVI. fig. 4.) having its mouth downwards, covering a fmall heap of bones, which from their imperfect ftate, and whitifh appearance, feem to have been burnt. In digging to the weft they 4 difcovered three fmall urns alike (PL XXVI. fig. 5.) placed in a row, and near them ten or twelve of the fame, all with their mouths downwards. Under theie, which were in a clufter, was a ftratum of earth, from its reddim colour probably burnt, covering an oval cavity of about four feet by five, which was filled with a confider- able quantity of charcoal, or burnt wood, in large pieces of eight or ten inches long. Amongft thefe, and in the ftratum of earth, were bones alike in appearance to thofe in the large urn. The large urn is of the moft coarfe and ordinary pottery imagina- ble, and, as it crumbles between the fingers, may poffibly have never been burnt. The bottom, being placed upwards, was broken by the workmen. The infide appeared as if blackened by fmoke. The fmaller one, (fig. 5.) though imperfect, is the leaft fo of twelve or fourteen which were found ; in fubftance not quite fo fbft as the 'other. The third vefTel (PL XXVI. fig. 6~.) may poffibly have been a lamp ; its fliape fomewhat refembles the upper part of a lid to an urn, but it does not appear to have been broken off. It is of rude workmanmip, but harder than the others. The holes feern to have been ornamental, as they do not perforate it. It was found among 4 many