338 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1686. 



20 bodies of men, of the ordinary stature, between 5^- feet and 6 feet tall, ex- 

 cept two youths of about 15 or l6 years of age. All these bodies lay extended 

 north and south, the arms stretched down close by the bodies, and the heads 

 all placed, along two stones. In an angle were 2 bodies, separated from 2 others 

 by a stone, of about a foot thick, 4 feet broad, and 5^ feet long, which lay in 

 the manner of a tomb-stone on the 2 bodies underneath. All these heads had 

 very fair sound teeth, and the cranium and other bones of the head were much 

 stronger and thicker than those of ordinary heads ; which argues them to have 

 been of strong well constitutioned men : amongst them all there was not any 

 woman's head. 



In examining the sepulchre further, it was observed, that at the same distance 

 from the superficies of the earth, and from those bodies thus buried, there were 

 3 little earthen pots, of about 4 inches diameter, and between 4 and 5 inches 

 high, of a black earth, as soft as wax ; which could not be separated from the 

 other earth without breaking them, and the pieces being brought into the open 

 air, turned of a greyish colour, and became hard: these pots were full of wood, 

 coals, and ashes. 



In the place where lay the two heads of the bodies on the tomb-stone there 

 were found two stones ; the one about 6 inches long, and ] 5 lines broad in its 

 broadest part, and about 4 lines thick, framed like the head of a pike, very 

 sharp and cutting at bQth ends, and on the sides ; it was a yellow flint, of which 

 the best firelock stones are made, being almost as hard as an agate. The other 

 stone, which was likewise under one of these heads, was shaped like the head 

 of an axe, about 4 inches long, and 3 inches broad, having a hole at the nar- 

 rowest end, and about 6 lines thick, very sharp and of a greenish stone, spotted 

 with white spots, also as hard as agate; the French lapidaries call it pierre de 

 jade, or the nephretic stone. 



Under the two heads which were under the tomb-stone, there were also found 

 two other stones ; the one much of the same nature with that first described, 

 but something longer, and the sharp end a little dulled. The other was like- 

 wise in the shape of an axe head, very sharp and cutting, of about 3 inches 

 long, and 2 and a half broad, and 6 lines thick, with a hole in it at the narrow 

 end : the stone was of a dark green colour, and by the lapidaries called oriental 

 serpentine. 



On the left side of the sepulchre which was open were 1 6 bodies, in the same 

 situation as the first, placed north and south, their heads along by a great stone, 

 and the arms extended along the bodies. The bones were all entire, though 

 they appeared very ancient, and after 2 days in the air, fell all to dust. All 

 the bones of these heads were very thick ; there was one that had been pierced 



