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f inch in diameter ; a portion of another ring, which is hollow, and formed by over- 

 lapping- a thin plate of bronze, besides seven broken portions of other rings. Irmi. — 

 Not lying together, but mixed up with the earth and debris which filled the 

 southern chamber, the author foimd : — seven specimens of iron objects; one is an 

 open ring, about | inch in diameter ; one half of another ring, somewhat larger ; 

 two pieces, each about 1 inch long, of uncertain use ; one thin piece, f inch long 

 and ^ inch broad ; one piece, li inch long, presenting the appearance of being the 

 leg of a compass, a tool vdth which the bone implements were evidently inscribed 

 and ornamented. Lastly, an iron fundi, or pick, 5 inches long, with flat point or 

 working end, with the head, or larger end, bearing evidences of being hammered, 

 and thus indicating its use. 



Many of the devices or designs upon the sculptured stones in the cairns have 

 been executed in punched or picked work, in many cases each impact or stroke in 

 the line being stiU quite visible. The author has fitted the point of this instrument 

 to many of these pimched patterns, and they afforded every appearance of having 

 been executed with such a tool as this. In a later examination of the remains of 

 this cairn (June 1868), assisted by two men, the following were found :— Nine small 

 open bronze rings, of different s"izes ; one link, or ring, material probably steatite,^ 

 nearly worn across in use in one place, and which may have been used as part of 

 an ear-ring ; one flint nodule, sponge-shaped, well polished on upper surface ; one 

 segment of a small bro-mi stone ball ; one thin rectangular disk of stone, veined in 

 piuk and blue shades of colour ; two bone beads ; two glass beads, one green and 

 the other blue, diftering in shape ; one " ihuhh head " of solid glass, about \ inch 

 in length, and of a very soft gi-een colom' when held up to the light ; fifteen por- 

 tions of bone flakes or implements, one perforated, and five others engi-aved with 

 circles and other ornamentations. 



Caibn I. 



In the compartment which exactly faces the east, on the surface of some finely 

 broken stones, and underneath a thin flag which formed the floor of the chamber, 

 the author found a bead and pendant, to all appearance portions of a necklace of stone. 



Caien J. 

 A roughly finished brown stone ball, about 1 inch in diameter, was found near 

 the opening of the passage into the interior chambers. 



Cairn L. 

 From among the loose stones which filled up the unroofed chambers here, the 

 author collected upwards of 1000 portions of bones : two bone flakes, similar to 

 those found in Caim H : 154 fragments of very rude pottery ; one piece, about 

 3 inches square, being the upper portion of an urn, is very inartistically ornamented 

 with three slight ridges, and about an inch from the top there is a single per- 

 foration ; another larger piece, ornamented with four slightly raised ridges, is per- 

 forated by two holes, one IJ inch below the other. When the interior chambers 

 were cleared of all the loose stones &c., on Tuesday evening, 19th September, 1865, 

 Mr. Naper, Mr. Hamilton, and Archbishop EiTington were present at the raising 

 of the remarkable large oval stone basin which occupied the floor of the northern 

 compartment. Immediately miderueath it were several splinters of charred, 

 blackened bones ; and, imbedded in the stiff' wet earth below, the author foimd _: — 

 upwards of 900 pieces of charred bones, with about a dozen pieces of charcoal lying 

 in various directions ; forty-eight human teeth, in good preservation ; the pointed 

 end of a bone pin, 5J inches long ; a fragment, 1 inch long, of a similar bone pin ; 

 a syenite ball, perfectly rounded, and stiU preserving its original polish, nearly 2J 

 inches in diameter ; another perfectly round stone ball, about 1 inch in diameter, 

 and streaked with white and pm-ple layers ; another brown stone ball, dashed with 

 dark spots ; a finely polished jet-like object, oval in shape, 1\ inch in length, and 

 f inch broad ; eight white stone balls, quite in a soft state. 



Cairn S. 

 The apex of this caim is completely gone, leaving exposed the tops of the up- 

 right stones forming the chambers. Outside the entrance to the passage was found, 



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