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Continuing the search within the same stone circle, we soon came on 
another and a larger urn (fig. 2). The first is not more than six inches in 
diameter at its widest part. This is twelve inches in height, by eleven in 
diameter; itis larger than any in the Museum, with one exception, an 
urn in the Petrie collection. The smaller of these urns would seem 
to have been open at both ends. There was nothing whatever under 
or over either that would lead one to suppose that its shape was any 
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fractured state of the smaller urn will not allow us to judge well 
whether it had any sort of ornament carved or impressed on it, as is 
usual in such vessels; but the circular mouldings and the diamond 
pattern on the larger urn are almost, if not quite identical with 
those on the urn in the Museum marked No. 20, which the catalogue 
says was found in the great tumulus of Rath. 
The contents of both urns were bones, a substance like charred peat, 
and sand. The sand will have fallen in owing to pressure from above 
as the other substances decayed gradually. I have submitted some 
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