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was unfortunately destroyed. Further researches made by 

 Mr. Miles in the neighbourhood of Kimmeridge Bay resulted 

 in the discovery of a kistvein, the foundation of which was 

 composed of large stones or sea-pebbles from the neighbour- 

 ing shore. It contained bones and broken pottery, portions 

 of vases or cups of different sizes and shapes, which were 

 generally shallow and wide at the top. There was a large 

 admixture of black rich mould and a quantity of coal-money, 

 varying in size and thickness. Occasionally Mr. Miles found 

 fragments of Kimmeridge shale, which had apparently been left by 

 the workmen in the course of preparation for the lathe, or cast 

 aside as useless. He especially mentions one piece upon which a 

 circle was marked and a centre point visible, similar to a piece he had 

 found at Worbarrow ; there was also a circular paten of granite. A 

 pentagonal-shaped kistvein was discovered on the cliffs of Kimme- 

 ridge, four feet long, three feet broad, and a foot and a-half high 

 composed of several large flat-slabs of Kimmeridge shale, placed 

 perpendicularly, and supporting larger ones, which formed the roof ; 

 within the chamber was a coarse patera of red brick-earth, mixed 

 with pieces of white and yellow clay. This rude pottery had only 

 undergone a partial heat. The patera was resting upon large loose 

 stones, and contained the head of an ox ; with this exception the 

 kistvein contained no animal remains, nor any coal-money ; both, 

 however, as well as the pottery, were abundant all around it, and of 

 the latter there were about eighty pieces. The quantity found in 

 the Kimmeridge valley and at Worbarrow affords a strong 

 presumption that there was an industry in the neighbourhood, in 

 connection with the Kimmeridge shale. Near a kistvein at 

 Worbarrow there were several pieces of reddish clay with only 

 impressions of the workman's fingers upon them, which must 

 have been made when the clay was in a plastic state. They had 

 evidently been brought from a distance, as they differed from the 

 clay of the neighbourhood. There were a few apparently worked- 

 flints with the clay, which, if used at all in the turning process, 

 may have served for roughing out, or finishing off the work in 



