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' The ftone, on which this infcrlption is, being of the 

 flaty kind, part of the furface has peeled off, and with 

 it fome of the letters ; it is about two and a half feet 

 in length by nearly one and a half in breadth ; the 

 letters appear as if fcraped with a fharp point, not cut 



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with a chifel. 



The people, who were employed in throwing up 

 thefe works, muft have been very refpe&able in point 

 of numbers, and thofe who directed them not deficient 

 in ingenuity, and in all probability very much exceeded 

 the fabricators of the pillar ftones, and the cromlech, 

 in both thefe particulars ; in three inftances we find the 

 caftle and the mount in conjunction ; in one only the 

 rude monument of ftone encompafled with works of 

 earth. That the general intention of thefe works was 

 for the purpofe of defence, I think cannot be doubted ; 

 the fmaller probably for collecting the cattle of a con- 

 fined diftrift, in cafe of alarm ; the larger, with the fe- 

 cond rampart and outwork, for a more regular fyftem 

 'of operations ; but befides this, in fome inftances they 

 ferved as places of burial, from the caves, which have 

 been opened in them, being found to contain human 

 bones, particularly one at Waringftown, which was 

 opened many years ago, and found to contain an urn 

 filled with bones and afhes ; another was opened about 

 forty years ago, on Mr. Muflenden's eftate, about two 

 miles from Lilburn ; a perfon, who faw the bones takea 

 out of a kind of flone coffin or trough, told me that 



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