an ancient Mode of Sepulture, &e. 233 
with fufficient force to confume it, with as little 
expence of fuel as poflible. 
Perhaps the triangular inftrument, confifting of 
three equal parts, every way alike, and which could 
form only one complete fupport when joined, 
might have a reference to the doctrine of the 
Trinity, and thereby teftify the deceafed’s firm 
belief of that point, and his hopes of falvation 
through that fource.* 
I think there can be but little doubt, but that 
the divifions en the infide of the fence, marked 
out by the lines. C CC, &c. were diftin& fepul- 
tures of the bones, afhes, and remains of different 
people in the earth, inftead of depofiting them 
entirely amongft ftones elevated above its furface, 
as in cairns; and if each divifion was appropriated 
_ to a fingle family, then this muft have been the 
common cemetery of a confiderable extent of 
country around. 
This mode of fepulture can be beft accounted 
fer, from the inhabitants, after converfion, laying 
afide the oftentatious manner of burying their dead, 
on the higheft and moft confpicuous places, and 
Gg , from 
* That the do&rine of the Trinity was foon canvaffed in 
this ccuntry, is rendered probable from a tradition, that 
when St. Patrick wifhed to give the then uncultivated 
people of Ireland, and this country, an idea of it, he 
prefented them with what grew every where under his fect, 
viz. a leaf of trefoil, or clover, 
