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being given of it. At the centre, which had been previously 

 disturbed, were the unburnt bones of an adult man, laid on the rock, 

 there coming to the surface. In the cairn, here and there, were 

 some bones of an adult ox. 



PARISH OF ASKHAM. Ord. Map. en. s.w. 



A considerable tract of land which has never been brought under 

 cultivation, called Moor Divock, still retains upon it a number of 

 various structures of pre-historic times, though many have dis- 

 appeared through their having consisted of stones and so been 

 found useful for a variety of purposes. They include cairns locally 

 called ' raises '- circles, and standing stones. Most of the grave- 

 mounds have been disturbed, and two of the raises lately examined 

 were found to contain burials. On one part of the moor there is 

 still to be seen a circular space, 68ft. in diameter, enclosed with 

 an earthen mound of very slight elevation, the entire area being 

 paved with water-rolled stones *. At the south-east side of it is a 

 monolith, called the Cop-stone, 5 ft. high. 



CLXXXIII. About 400 yards to the north-west of this monolith 

 is a circle of stones, ten in number, each about 3ft. high, standing 

 apart and enclosing a space of 18 ft. in diameter. This circle 

 it is probable surrounded in the first instance the base of a 

 cairn, remains of which may be seen in a number of cobble-stones 

 covering the space within the circle. On examination, a hollow 

 was found at the centre 2 ft. in diameter and as much in depth, 

 sunk below the natural surface ; in it were deposited the remains 

 of the burnt body of an adult, and overlying the bones was a 

 layer of fine sand about 3 in. in thickness, upon which was placed 

 a ' food vessel ' laid on its side and with its mouth to the west. 

 It is in shape like fig. 71, SJin. high, Gin. wide at the mouth, 

 and 2f in. at the bottom which is slightly cupped. There are four 

 unpierced ears at the shoulder. It is very symmetrically made, 



years of age and those of an infant, and with them were some bones of a small dog. 

 Journ. of Arch. Inst., vol. vi. p. 232. A similar discovery was made in 1847 at Knock - 

 necoura, Carlow, where one urn was found inside another, and the deposit of burnt 

 bones within included those of an adult and of an infant. Wilde, Cat. Mus. 

 Royal Irish Academy, p. 180. 



1 ' In Algeria . . . we find . . . stone circles, in which the floors are paved.' Lubbock, 

 Prehistoric Times (3rd ed.), p. 127, quoting ' Recueil des Notices et Memoires de la 

 Societe Arche'ologique de la Province de Constantine,' 1863, p. 214. 



