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Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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an of thiscemetery. The base of each amphora tapered away to apoint. They were 24 inches deep, and their widest diameterwas 21 inches. They could not stand upright without sup-port ; consequently, in the Museum, circular frames of ironhave been made for them, with legs. To prepare thesewine-jars, for use as funeral urns, their necks and handleswere broken off, and a large aperture was cut symmetricallyin the top of each. In one amphora (X) this aperture wasmade square, and each side of it measures 1\ inches;through it the cremated deposit No. 3, enclosed in a squarejug of glass (Xa), was introduced into the amphora. In theother amphora (Y) the aperture was made larger, and per-fectly circular; in order that a large round glass vessel (Ya)might pass through it, to enshrine a cremated deposit,numbered 6 on the plan. The square-mouthed amphora (X) is so put together as tobe nearly perfect. Within it was the vessel X.a, 11J incheshigh, containing the calcined bones of the deceased person.
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IN AND NEAR MAIDSTONE. 79 The body of this jug is square in plan (51 inches square, and8J inches high); above the square body rises a neck 3 incheshigh, and 2f inches in diameter; with a rimmed mouth 3;inches wide. Attached, to the neck and shoulder, is a broadreeded handle, 3; inches long, and varying in width from 2fto 3; inches. Two bronze vessels also found in amphora Xare still preserved in Maidstone Museum. One of them isan octagonal jug (Xh), 7 inches high, from which a hingedlid has been torn away, leaving a sufficient trace of thehinge on the mouth, above the handle. The diameter ofthis octagonal bronze jug is 4 inches at its widest part, 2;inches at the narrowest part of the neck, and 2; at itsmouth. Its handle is 4§ inches long, and is H inch distantfrom the narrowest part of the neck. Another bronze vessel(Xc)* is 8^ inches high, and has two handles, each 4 incheslong. The diameter of this vase is 4; inches at its largestpart, 2; inches at its mouth, and 2f at base. Into

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