138 PREHISTORIC INTERMENT AT TRETHIL. 



There is no doubt, I believe, but that interments of this kind 

 are of an earlier date than those that are found cremated, and 

 those that contain the food pot are of the earliest of the former 

 kind. 



The Kist-vean is still kept o]3en, and I believe that it is Miss 

 Roberts' intention that it shall be retained in that condition as 

 an object of interest. 



Mr. Kerswill, of St. Germans, who saw it soon after it was 

 opened, obtained several portions of bone ; these he gave to me, 

 and they are, with the pottery, to be placed in the Museum of the 

 Plymouth Institution. 



