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heaps of loofe ftones,* the fuppofed inter- 

 ments of fome men of antient note, the 

 large ft twelve feet long, nine broad, and 

 the quoit or upper ftone, about twenty 

 inches thick. I was told that this part of 

 Merionethmire abounded in different fpe- 

 cies of Druidical antiquity. 



I pafled 



* Though thefe barrows, on account of the 

 cromlechs erected on them, have every appearance 

 of high antiquity, yet I am inclined to fuppofe, witfy 

 Mr. Wyndham, a judicious traveller through this 

 country in 1774, that many of the heaps of ftones, 

 ufually taken for barrows or cairns, *' were origi- 

 ?* nally piled together for no pther reafon than that 

 *' the reft of the field might afford the clearer paf- 

 " ture." See Tour through Monmouthmire and 

 Wales, by Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, Efq. 

 The mode of forming thefe antient barrows or 

 Carneddaiiy as they are called by the Wellh, was 

 fomewhat curious. When the carnedd was con- 

 fidered as the honourable tomb of a warrior, every 

 pafler by threw an additional ftone out of reverence 



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