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fourteen in number, ten of which are still upright. On none of 
these stones is there anything like a carved cup or 1ing-mark. So 
much for tumulus and stone circle. If you turn your back to the 
tumulus on its N.W. side and walk away in a line with its diameter, 
you will, at one hundred and eighty feet off, trip against a half- 
sunk monolith ; thirty feet further in the same direction and a 
second such stone arrests you ; and again another thirty feet and 
you stand on the ring of a third circle, whose diameter also is 
thirty feet, and the peculiarity of which is that the kist-vaen within 
lies, not in the centre, but fully two feet off it, towards the are 
nearest the tumulus. This circle and kist-vaen, not so many years 
ago, were as completely buried in a heap of granite boulders as 
the above described tumulus ; but the stones were carried away to 
build part of the neighbouring dyke. The covering slab of this 
kist-vaen measures five feet three inches by three feet three inches, 
and is about eight inches thick; and is supported on two thin 
slabs at the E. and W. ends of the grave. Numbers of 
boulders fill up the space below it, so that it has most probably 
been at one time opened and its contents, if any, disturbed. 
There is no vestige of cup or ring mark on any of these stones. 
On my return to Cauldside, I passed several small irregular heaps 
of granite boulders. There being nothing to indicate any connec- 
tion with the relics just explored, or any pre-arranged plan among 
themselves, I took scant notice of these heaps; but in the 
last of them (eastwards), on a stone somewhat conical and about 
two feet and a half high, two distinct marks arrested me, both, - 
I am inclined to think, ancient and artificial—one certainly artifi- 
cial. The one, which may be water-formed (or the lower half of 
the cavity of a pebble) is a purely circular depression about two 
inches in diameter, and # of an inch deep. The other, nearly 
three inches in diameter and two and a half inches deep, is funnel- 
shaped, its sides narrowing with perfect smoothness to the small, 
flat, button-like hole at the extremity. The same funnel-shaped 
hollow occurs on a similarly-grained block of sandstone in Ohio, 
near Ironton, Lawrence Co., and at Redhills, near Penrith. There 
is only one other fact to notice in connection with this district, and 
that is the frequent occurrence of small circular ridges now over- 
erown with grass and heather, which, I have little doubt, would 
prove to be of the same nature as that which forms the northern 
kist-vaen circle in this series of three at Cauldside, 
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