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terments had been disturbed, and their deposits removed, 

 and only fragments of bones were met with in the avenue, 

 which had probably been brought from the sepulchral re- 

 cesses. In the furtherraost recess, however, were a leg 

 and thigh bones ; at another point confused heaps of 

 bones and earth. Jaw bones were also found, with the 

 teeth perfect, and the upper parts of two crania, which 

 were remarkably flat in the forehead ; also several arm, 

 leg, and thigh bones, with vertebras, but no perfect skele- 

 ton. In one of the cists was an earthen vessel, with burnt 

 bones ; also a number of bones, which, from their variety, 

 seemed to have been the relics of two or three skeletons. 



At one point a stone was placed across the passage, and 

 Sir Richard supposes that the sepulchral vault extended 

 only thus far atßrst, and in later times was enlarged to its 

 present extent. This seems very probable, from what has 

 been found in baiTows in Norway, of which something 

 may be Said further on. 



No attention seems to have been paid to the size and 

 symmetry of the stones which line the sides, which are put 

 together as they have been procured, and do not indicate 

 the use of any tools. 



We find in this tumulus instances of both modes «f in- 

 terment — burial and cremation ; but the latter seems to 

 have been of mcre recent date. Sir Richard observes : 

 " I have never been able to separate with any degree of 

 certainty, by two different periods, these different modes 

 of sepulture." He also notices the peculiar conformation 

 of the two skulls found in this tumulus, and says they 

 were " totally different in their formation from any others 

 which bis reseavches had led bim to examine, and appeared 

 to him remarkably flat in the forehead." Mr. Skinner, in 

 bis MS. letter, says : " Two of the skulls appear to have 



