218 Mr Wood's Description of the cotitents of a Tumulus. 



in the inside a flat stone, six inches thick, and about three feet 

 broad, reaching from A to H, stood on edge ; it Was also ce^ 

 mented to the outer wall with clay. All the walls of the prin- 

 cipal apartment were thus hned, except at the fire-place. 



A space, the breadth of the drain, between B B, was left, 

 evidently for a door ; there was no appearance of a window in 

 any part ; neither was there any thing like a roof. 



, The walls at the fire-place were built, like the other walls, 

 from the ground to the height of a foot and a half; when ano- 

 ther form of building commenced^ with large flat stones, without 

 cement ; they were so placed, that the one above overlapped the 

 one below an inch or two, thus gradually contracting the vent, till 

 at last, at the height of five feet, only an opening, six or seven 

 inches wide, was left. The vent had only three sides, or rather a 

 back wall and two side walls ; it was open next the principal 

 apartment. The fire-place itself was raised a foot from the 

 floor, built of rough stones which had suffered from strong heat : 

 they crumbled down on being rubbed between the fingers. At 

 one side of the fire-^ce was a large stone K, as if for a table 

 or seat ; at the other side a small semicircular recess L. Th^ 

 floor of this apartment was composed of clay, which appears 

 to have been taken from the loch already mentioned, where it 

 abounds. 



The drain, which commenced near the fire-place, was only 

 a few inches deep, built with rough stones of various sizes, and 

 covered with flag-stones level with the floor ; it contained a con- 

 siderable quantity of very fetid water At the outer end of the 

 drain there was a small cell (e) ; it had no communication with 

 the drain ; the sides of it were formed of four flat stones, about 

 two feet high, set on edge, and not cemented together. The bot- 

 tom of it was considerably below the level of the drain, and 

 formed of clay. 



The cell Q had one side open to the principal apartment ; it 

 was lined on all sides, top and bottom, with flag-stones, except 

 the opening, which measured about two feet six inches both ways; 

 the depth of this cell from the level of the floor of the principal 

 apartment to the bottom, was two feet five inches : from the top 

 of the cell to the bottom four feet eleven inches. Outside of the 

 flat stones there was a rough wall, built as in the principal apart- 



