The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine (1869) (14587005588)

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Title: The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine

Year: 1869 (1860s)

Authors: Goddard, Edward Hungerford, 1854- Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Proceedings

Subjects: Natural history

Publisher: (Devizes, Eng. : The Society)

Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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hat what it held was of the consistency of pigment,would certainly allow oil or blubber, which it has been supposedwas at that time used to nourish the flame of the wick, to exude.The cup found near Dunbar I observed to have only one pair ofholes on one side, and so to be incapable of suspension as a lightedlamp by means of a ligament drawn through them. By thisinstrumentality however the vessel might have been hung upempty or full, if its contents were caked together and solid as pigmentwould probably be when dry; or if a small osier twig had beenbent and inserted into the holes to serve as a handle, the ownermight with convenience have mingled and carried paint in thevessel. The third clay cup figured in Professor Wilsons work,found at Old Penrith, Cumberland, has one pair of holes togetherat the bottom, and is therefore open to both the objections alreadystated against its use as a lighted lamp. On the other hand itmight have been employed as a pigment pot, and by means of a Pl, I.

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found near Coughton in Warwickshire. 125 ; ligament passed through the holes, carried about the warriorsperson, or suspended in his habitation. But my supposition thatthe so-called incense cups served the purpose of vessels in whichto mingle body-paint does not rest solely on their adaptation forthat use, and their inapplicability for other uses suggested byeminent archaeologists, and on the important discovery of stone potsof similar capacity, and actually containing red pigment, or tracesof it, in Orkney ; but appears to receive further important corrob-oration from the following piece of direct evidence. In a cist atLiffs, in Derbyshire, three bits of red ochre were found associatedwith an incense cup, as recorded in Batemans vestiges of theAntiquities of Derbyshire, transcribed in Sir John LubbocksPre-historic times, page 94. On these grounds the writer of thisarticle presumes to hope that his readers will recognize a probabilityin his supposition, that the Coughton cup and the so

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