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men, and set them to work at the south end of the trench, in 

 order, if the passage still continued (as the workmen informed 

 me) that I might see if it led to other chambers. To work 

 they went; but having gone about eight feet in continuation, 

 and a depth of six, and in some places seven feet, I gave up 

 hopes of any further discovery. The walls of the passage still 

 continued running now south-eastward, the tops of the walls 

 being five feet beneath the surface of the field ; but this pas- 

 sage was filled up with clay, and no flags covered it across. 



" In this cutting, however, I found an ancient Irish quern, 

 and beside it (both at a depth of four feet) a bit of charcoal. 



" Looking carefully among the heaps of stones which had 

 composed the chambers, I found the basin or flat urn I now 

 send you. This the men thought had been thrown out of the 

 smaller of the two chambers. 



" The flags of which these chambers had been made were 

 of two kinds, clay-slate and red sand-stone, there being much 

 of the latter. On one flag of the former, and half imbedded 

 in the substance of the stone, were sea-shells of the ammonite. 



" I brought away the quern, the basin, and a piece of the 

 flag covered with shells. 



" I hope the basin, though rude in form, may prove inte- 

 resting. 



