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PEEHISTOEIC INTERMENT EECENTLT FOUND AT TEETHIL IN 

 SHEVIOCK. 



Bt C. SPENCE bate, F.R.S., Honorary Member. 



The accompanying woodcut is intended to represent the form 

 and appearance of a Kist-vean recently opened at Trethil, in 

 the parish of Sheviock near St. Germans. 



The farmer, who was employed with his men in putting up a 

 barley-mow, found it necessary to prop it with a pole inserted 

 into the ground; to do this with security, he ordered a 

 hole to be dug. The men after driving for about three 

 feet ca,me upon a flat stone, which they removed. Upon taking 

 it up, Mr. Hill, the farmer, told me that he thought it must have 

 been an old drain, because when the cover was taken off there 

 were several bars, like iron bars, right across ; then they saw 

 a skull in the corner, and then they perceived that it was the 

 remains of a human body, doubled up, so that the arms were 

 hugging up the knees. The men then with a shovel dug the 

 entire mass out, but found nothing more. 



