228 Mr. Copland’s Account of 
aud fupports. He fortunately got a drawing made 
of them by the late Mr. Grofe, foon after they. 
came into his poffeffion; now they are moftly 
mouldered away from expofure to the air, owing to 
their having been very much corroded by ruft. 
With his perm/ffion I have got an exact copy taken 
from his, which is herewith fent; fee the Figs. from 
5th. to 15th. inclufive; they are of the fame colour 
with what the chains, &c. were, when firft difco- 
vered. ‘They are of exactly the fame fize with Mr. 
Riddell’s drawings, and are therefore on too large a 
fcale in proportion to the others. ‘The original 
large pillared fupport is about two feet long; each 
link of the chains extends about three inches and 
a half, and the otiers are in the proportion to thefe 
as reprefented. Befides thefe articles, the fork, 
and.the hoops, there were three or four fpades or 
fhove's, of that kind formerly ufed in this country, 
having their edges only fhoed with iron; the whole 
of their wood was mofily decayed. The ufe of 
thefe articles feemed to elude the ingenuity of every 
perfon that faw them, for feveral years, till the 
difcovery lately of the triangle, hearth, cemetery, 
&c. makes every thing plain, fo that now the com- 
plete apparatus feems to have been difcovered for 
the purpofe of confuming the dead by fire, and of 
depofiting their bones and afhes thereafter. And 
what makes it fill more remarkable is, the great 
diftance of time that they have been preferved 
undeftroyed, 
