 Its diminutive size approximates it to the "incense-cup" type ; and that it was a mortuary vessel appears from the circumstance that it contained bones, which are described as being those "of an infant or very young child. It was embedded in a much larger...  Transactions - Pagina 3841869Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Royal Irish Academy. Museum - 1857 - 274 pagine
...Carlow; and contained portions of the burned bones of an infant or very young child. It was embedded in a much larger and ruder urn, filled with fragments...they may have been the remains of mother and child.* Some years ago the opinion, not merely of the public at large, but of a few professing antiquaries,... | |
 | 1858 - 746 pagine
...Carlow ; and contained portions of the burned bones of an infant, or very young child. It was embedded in a much larger and ruder urn, filled with fragments...they may have been the remains of mother and child." The difficulty of assigning an accurate epoch to those articles recalls the observations of Sir Thomas... | |
 | William Robert Wilde - 1861 - 792 pagine
...Carlow; and contained portions of the burned bones of an infant or very young child. It was embedded in a much larger and ruder urn, filled with fragments...they may have been the remains of mother and child.* Some years ago the opinion, not merely of the public at large, but of a few professing antiquaries,... | |
 | 1862 - 968 pagine
...Carlow; and contained portions of the burned bones of an infant or very young child. It was embedded in a much larger and ruder urn, filled with fragments of adult human bones: possibly they may ha\e been the remains of mother and child." The collection of sepulchral urns in the Museum is, as... | |
 | 1868 - 758 pagine
...contained bones, which are described as being those "of an infant or very young child. It was embedded in a much larger and ruder urn, filled with fragments...was afterwards accidentally recovered from among the debi-is. These little cups are usually found associated with or enclosed within larger sepulchral vessels... | |
 | Royal Irish Academy. Museum, William Robert Wilde - 1863 - 672 pagine
...Carlow; and contained portions of the burned bones of an infant or very young child. It was embedded in a much larger and ruder urn, filled with fragments...they may have been the remains of mother and child.* Some years ago the opinion, not merely of the public at large, but of a few professing antiquaries,... | |
 | 1869 - 1080 pagine
...situate upon a hillock, an urn, resembling a beehive in form, was exposed to view ; this unfortunately crumbled to pieces. Associated with it was a small...was afterwards accidentally recovered from among the débris. These little cups are usually found associated with, or enclosed within, larger sepulchral... | |
 | William Frederick Wakeman, John Cooke (M.A.) - 1903 - 444 pagine
...Bagenalstown in 1847, which contained the burnt bones of an infant or very young child. ' It was embedded in a much larger and ruder urn, filled with fragments of adult human bones.' The smaller urn, when reversed, ' presents,' says Wilde, ' both in shape and ornamentation all the... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1867 - 744 pagine
...contained bones, which are described as being those " of an infant or very young child. It was embedded in a much larger and ruder urn, filled with fragments...they may have been the remains of mother and child, "t I have already mentioned that this incense-cup was thrown out by the workmen from the trench in... | |
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