PRE-HFSTORIO ARCHAEOLOGY OF EAST DKVON. i'J

height, 3 in. in diameter at the mouth, and contains about a quarter of a pint. These are ahnost precisely the measure- ments of the cup found at Broad Down in the year 18G8, and described and figured in this Journah^ Indeed, so closely do these tsvo examples resemble one another in form, in size, in material and general appearance, that it might be concluded that they proceed from one and the same atc/ic7 In recording, however, the features of analogy be- tween these two drinking-cups, it should be mentioned that the example which has been lately brought to light is not so well preserved as its predecessor. In the later instance the entire surface is blurred and fretted, and wants the smoothness and polish of the original. The ornamentation also is b}' no means distinctly to be traced ; and whilst the form of the bowl tapers downwards from the rim and termi- nates in a cone, yet the point is rounded off abruptly, so as to admit of the cup standing upon its base. (See fig. 8 ; also fig. 9, already given in this Journal in 1868, and here repeated for the advantage of more ready comparison.) Subsequently a third barrow of this group of seven has been investigated. It lay about twenty yards to the south of the central tumulus, and, attaining a perpendicular lieight of about 6 ft., was about 90 ft. in diameter. We found, as before, a mass of peat and clay piled upon a central cairn of flints. AVithin this, at the base of the barrow, was the interment of burnt bones, conq^lctely enshrouded within an accumulation of the roots of the furze ; and near to the bones were the fragments of a bronze implement, too much decayed to enable us to recognise the type. Outside the cairn, on its southern side, was an accumulation of charcoal, marking, doubtless, the spot where the process of cremation occurred. The opening of these barrows aifords, it is presumed, a complete insight into the mode of burial which prevailed at the time that the barrow-builders lived in East Devon. In each instance we have found that the mound has been raised over calcined human bones, which, in many cases, lay in the same j)lace on the natural surface of the ground that they occupied when the embers of the funeral pyre were smothered by the casting up of the earth of the tunuihis. The bones ' Archaeological Journ:il, vol. xxv. p. 29". ami Traiisaotioiis of the Devonshire As-sociation, vol. ii. p. t52<3.