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SEPULCHRAL DEPOSIT IN HOLYHEAD ISLAND. 229 that it proved impracticable to extricate it without breaking the vessel in pieces. This exterior urn appears to have been of great size : the diameter at the mouth must have measured nearly 13 inches ; the height cannot now be ascertained. The strongest parts of the fragments, which have been pre- served, measure nearly seven-eighths of an inch in thickness : the surface is of a dingy brown colour, extenchng only through a slight crust, the interior being dark, black, and deficient in compactness. The outer side is scored around the rim with diagonal and vertical lines, formed as if by the pressure of a coarse cord upon the clay ; and it is ornamented by several grooves or channels of equal width, marked with zigzag lines, impressed in like manner, and with great regu- larity. Each of these last impressions seems to have been produced by a little dentated punch, about half an inch in length. On the inner side,*^ the mouth of the urn is like^^^se ornamented with a corded pattern, about 2f inches deep. (See woodcut.) The small urn, which is of lighter colour, very compact and well formed, measures 4f inches diameter at mouth : its height is 3 inches; diameter of base, If inches. Restoration of the broken Urn, showing the supposed proportions of the pair. (Une-sixth original size.) ^ This scoring on the inner side does not appear to be of frequent occurrence. See a drinking cup,lIoare's Anc. Wilts, vol. i., p. 237 ; Fenton's Peinb., pi. i., fig. 1, p. 350. VOL. VI. I I