an ancient Mode of Sepulture, &'c. 223 
and all in the fame direction with the middle line 
ofthe fence. They were in fo entire a ftate, that 
the country people took them to a Smith, and got 
them hammered into inftruments for country pur- 
pofes, at the time that the Farmer who had found 
them was delirious from a febrile attack of which 
he died, and to whom I had given ftric&t charges to 
preferve them in the moft careful manner. In 
order to affift in defcribing the Cemetery and this 
Inftrument, I made a rough fketch of the firft on 
the fpot, and the laft I have figured from the re- 
collection of myfelf and others, who had examined 
them. | . 
Fig. 1ft. reprefents a perpendicular fection of 
the fence, being at a medium about three feet high 
- above the ground, to fhew the manner in which the 
large and {mall ftones were depofited, and the earth 
divided by flat ftones on the infide, together with 
the ditch, at prefent filled up with earth, but which 
is diftinétly to be traced all round, nearly at an 
equal diftance from the fence. A, B, C, the three 
rows of large ftones exactly the fame all round. E, 
the niche or fpace for fepulture. D, the portion of 
original till at the end of it, that muft have pre- 
vented the afhes and bones, when mixed and 
covered with fome earth, from falling into the ditch 
G; and F a fection of the furface of the triangular 
hearth, as it appears near the South-weft corner. 
Fig. 
