On the opening and examination of a barrow of the British period at Warkshaugh, North Tyneside / by Geo. Rome Hall.
- Hall, George Rome.
- Date:
- [1865?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the opening and examination of a barrow of the British period at Warkshaugh, North Tyneside / by Geo. Rome Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![OF THE WtllTSH TEiaOT AT WAltii:.blIAL'GiI. 103 to which wc may attiibutc it, remain to he hrielly noticed. ] was told hy the labourers that, in my absence, they had found several urns, large and small, in prosecuting the digging of the later trenches. Fragments of these supposed urns were produced, which certainly bore a close resemblance to unscored pottery; but on nearer inspection they proved to he portions of the ci’umb- liug whin already mentioned, and they contained numerous small fossils. Two characteristic urns, however, were discovered. That which was not in any cist had been placed on a flat stone in a line with the paved way, and was protected from injuiy by four small suiTounding slabs, being probably covered originally with another slab since displaced. A fragment, shondng the peculiar scoring, is figured (fig. 3). This cinerary urn was seventeen inches in diameter and thirteen inches high, of a somewhat flat- tened form, with a rounded or slightly convex bottom, (the result, perhaps, of external pressure in a damp soil,) which the plough pierced in its inverted j)osition. It seemed as if it had been made on the spot for its special purpose, and never used in a domestic capacity, as it could not stand alone if this was the original shape. After the calcined bones had been placed within it the rim had apparently been cemented to the bottom slab with damp clay to preserve them more securely. In the midst of the zigzag lines of scoring around the upper part of the urn, for like cinerary urns generally it was plain beneath, and embedded, indeed, in various parts of the pottery of both urns, but especially distinct in this larger one, were numerous bright specks of a golden colour, nouloubt particles of mica mingled with the na- tural clay. The portions of the second um found in the eastern cist were so far recovered that an entire side was obtained, from which the annexed sketch has been made (fig. 4). It is of a more graceful shape, of the so-called “ food-vessel” type, and much smaller, having dotted scorings, made with a triangularly pointed instrument, ornamenting it from top to bottom. The dimensions are—six inches high, seven and a half inches the top diameter, and three and a half inches at the bottom. IJnscorcd patches occurred at intervals of two or three inches around the lira, below the overhanging rim, from which little oars had](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22440069_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
