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had been ojDened by Mr. Dennis, the tenant of Rosebrough, who dis- 

 covered a rudely-formed cist at the centre, which however contained 

 nothing — the bones apparently having- gone entirely to decay. 



CXCVI. The fourth is situated in a wood about half-a-mile to 

 the south of the last three, and was also opened by IMr. Dennis. 

 It is 60 ft. in diameter, and about 10 ft. high. At the centre was a 

 cist, placed on the natural surface, made of four stones set on edge 

 with a single cover-stone. The cist, which has a direction east-by- 

 north and west-by-south, is S^ ft. long, 1 ft. 7 in. wide, and 2 ft. 

 1 in. deep ; the cover-stone is 6| ft. long, 4| ft. wide, and averages 

 1 ft. in thickness. In the cist a very few unburnt bones were 

 found, the only remains of the body once contained within it, and 

 some pieces of burnt stone. 



Major Luard-Selby opened some of the smaller cairns, which are 

 numerous, and found in one a large cinerary urn partly filled with 

 burnt bones and covered by a pentagonal-shaped stone. In another 

 there was a vessel of pottery ornamented with six encircling bands 

 of short impressions inclining to the right. 



CXCVII. A little distance to the south of the large cairn in the 

 wood opened by Mr. Dennis was a smaller one, placed upon a piece of 

 rising ground on the moor belonging to the farm of Rosebrough, 

 and which appeared never to have been disturbed until I opened it. 

 Amongst the stones principally composing it \^as some earth, 

 probably rather due to the decay of the vegetable growth with 

 which in a long course of years it had become invested, than to any 

 intentional admixture in the first instance. It was 25 ft. in 

 diameter and 3 ft. high. At the centre a cinerary urn was dis- 

 covered, inverted over a deposit of burnt bones (those of two adults, 

 one probably a woman), and resting upon a flat sandstone slab 

 which ultimately proved to be the cover of a cist. The urn [fig. 

 60] is 15 in. high, 12^ in. wide at the mouth, and 4 in. at the 

 bottom. It is a very remarkable specimen of the class to which it 

 belongs, and is the first that I have seen which has the peculiar but 

 effective ornament seen upon the rim. This consists of two series 

 of figures in relief, encompassing the urn at the top and bottom of 

 the rim. The urn is well made, and the ornamentation is applied 

 with some taste and skill, nor is it often in this type of vessel that 

 the whole of it is covered with a pattern. Amongst the burnt 



