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and was 26 ft. in diameter, 2^ ft. high, and was made of earth with 

 a few stones principally near to the top. It contained but one 

 interment, that of a woman of at least 24 years of age, the remains 

 of whose burnt body were enclosed in an urn, inverted upon a 

 small flagstone placed 10 in. above the natural surface. Amongst 

 the bones was a bead made of clay [fig. 52], which no doubt had 

 been on the body when the process of cremation had been under- 

 gone. It is made of the same clay as that of which the urn is 

 composed, and has undergone the same process of baking at an 

 open fire. The urn is somewhat in form like fig. 56, having an 

 overhanging rim 2 in. deep; it is 10} in. high, 8^ in. wide at 

 the mouth, 9Jin. at the broadest part, 3Jin. at the bottom, and 

 is entirely without ornamentation. 



A very marked difference will be observed between this sepulchral 

 mound and those last described. They were made entirely of stone, 

 this almost entirely of earth ; and whilst the burials in the stone 

 mounds were principally by inhumation, the single one in this was 

 after cremation. Though it would be rash to infer from these 

 points of difference that the mounds in question were the burial- 

 places of distinct tribes, it is probable that there was a point of 

 divergence between these two kinds of sepulchral mounds, if not 

 in respect of the people who erected them, at all events in point 

 of time. Perhaps this is more a matter of impression than of 

 reasoning, and, as such, something must be allowed to the effect 

 produced on the minds of the persons witnessing the exploration 

 of the cairns and barrows by the appearances then presented and 

 which no description can convey. 



PARISH OF ORTON. Ord. Map. xcvin. N.E. 



On the opposite range, of hills to the north of the last-described 

 cairns are several others, all of which appear to have been more or 

 less disturbed at some distant period ; two of them were however 

 subjected to a further examination, and not altogether without 

 profitable results accruing. 



CLXXVIII. The first, on the summit of the ridge overhanging 

 the homestead of Sunbiggin, was 50 ft. in diameter, but the height 

 could not be ascertained in consequence of the cairn having been 

 opened at the centre down to the level of the natural surface. 



