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they were quite wet and easily broken. The pottery of which they 

 are composed is coarse and unevenly burnt, quite black at the centre, 

 and broWn outside and inside. Prior to the discovery of this grave,, 

 the workmen found some bones, but re-buried them. The pit is now 



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Fig. 3.— Plan of Cist. 



nearly half excavated, and it is quite possible that another cist will 

 be unearthed. 



No beads, or ornaments, or celts were found in the neighbourhood 

 of the erave, nor in the cist itself. 



Repobt bt Dk. Chaeles Beowne. 



Anthkopological Laboeatoky, 

 Teinity College, Dublin. 



Having examined the remains submitted to me I have to report 

 that they consist of — 



(a) Bones which have been cremated or subjected to great heat. 

 These are in so fragmentary a state, and so distorted by the action 



