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PRE-IIISTORIC ARCHiEOLOGY OF EAST DEVON. 105 Fio. 3. Bronze awl or pin, fonml with the burnt bones, and probably used to fasten the cloth in which they were collected. Original size. Fio. 4. Incense Cup, found in a barrow at Upton-Pyne. Original size. The rim of this vessel is not so sharp-edged as would appear from the woodcut ; it is also broken in parts and irregular, owing to the coarse quality uf the clay of which it is coinposetL A zig-zag pattern, iinjjertectly worked, may be traced on this rim. Flu. 5. Portion of the under surface of the incense cup, showing the pattern that was impressed on it. The Institute is indebted to the kind courtesy of the Author for the Ilhistnitions of this Memoir. Wliilst the forej^'oing addition to the vaUiable records of Mr. Kirwan's researches, given from time to time in this Journal, has been in the press, the painful announcement has reached us of the untimely death of our Friend, — of the deej) grief of his bereaved wife and children, in which all who knew him must heartily sympathise. We camiot fail to bear in grateful remembrance, that his latest com- munications were marked by his zealous interest in exertions for the cause of our Societ}', in anticipation of our projected meeting at E.xeter, that seemed so full of promise under the auspices of so hearty and intelligent a fellow labourer in the promotion of our mutual purposes of interest. Deo a I iter vision !