Crundale Grave 2

About the same time, and within about two yards of these, another of the men struck his mattock into another nest of them, and entirely destroyed a large urn, or ossuary, of coarse, thick, black earth. It would, I imagine, contain about a gallon, and was full of burnt bones, broken into small pieces, ashes, bits of wood-coal, and chalk. The latter had fallen into it, and lay on the top; from whence we may infer, that if this urn had any cover to it at its interment, it must have been of some perishable substance. And, by the bye, this must have been the case with those hereafter mentioned, for we found nothing like a lid or cover to any of them, whether ossuaries or smaller ones. Here were also a patera of fine red earth; and a long narrow-necked vessel of a bluish coloured earth; these were also, through want of care or of more practice, entirely demolished. The patera seemed to have been exactly like that mentioned at No. 1, except that the impression in the centre of its inside was ivnivs.[1] The bottle, or narrow-necked vessel, had a small ear, or handle, on one side of the neck, like those hereafter described.[1]This name also occurs on red Roman, ware the ancient family of Kemp, to whom this manor and in France and in Germany.- C.R.S.