... straight from the head. The pins are very long, some measuring as much as 12 inches. In the very interesting find at Armoy, County Antrim (p. 81), it will be remembered that one of these pins was ... burnt interments, continued in use during the greater part of the Bronze Age, and the name food-vessel is hardly appropriate in Ireland, as in many cases these vessels have been found containing ... several theories have been advanced to explain the purpose of placing them in graves, but none of them are altogether satisfactory.[52] Like the other vessels, they can be divided into different...