Plunkett & Coffey — Topped Mountain Cairn. 



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carried do-u-n through the ptones, and stratified by raiii--water. This 

 might account for some of the upper patches of charcoal, but not the 

 loiver, and especially the larger spots. The latter are, no doubt, 

 burial, or associated -n-ith burial. It may be inferred from the fact 

 that the particles of burnt bonts and pottery found, in. at least two 

 cases, "U'ere reduced by "vret to little more than traces ; that, in some of 

 the other cases, the bones and pottery have been completely "U'ashed 



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Fig. 0.— Stone Celt {h). 



a"^ay. In the case of the deposit of bones marked a on plan, the part 

 of the cairn in which they were placed was comparatively dry, which 

 would account for their better preseryation. It is somewhat per- 

 plexing, considering the importance of the mound, that, with the 



Fig. 6.— Cranium (Front). Fig. 7,— Cranium (Profile). 



exception of this instance and those mentioned on the 6th and 8th 

 July, nothing in the nature of a cist, or protecting stones, were 



found. 



