The style of decoration also differs widely, some being but rudely ornamented, while others bear indications of artistic skill which could not have been exercised by a rude or uncultivated people.
[Illustration] We give a full-page illustration of an urn and its contents, at present in the collection of the Royal Irish Academy.

This urn was found in a tumulus, which was opened in the Phoenix Park, near Dublin, in the year 1838.

The tumulus was about 120 feet in diameter at the base, and fifteen feet high.

Four sepulchral vases, containing burnt ashes, were found within the tomb.

It also enclosed two perfect male skeletons, the tops of the femora of another, and a bone of some animal.