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able period, if indeed it had ever been closed. It was, however, impossible 

 to make use of it as a means of access to the chambei-, as a slip of one of the 

 side-stones of the passage had narrowed it too much to admit of a person 

 creeping through. We were accordingly obliged to cut down through the 

 middle of the earn, and to get into the central chamber through the roof. 

 It proved to be merely a square cist, 5 feet long, 3 feet 3 inches broad at the 

 inner end, and 2 feet 10 inches high, approached by a narrow and awkward 

 creep-passage, roughly built, widening just inside the door, though nowhere 

 high enough to permit one to stand upright. The passage (exclusive of the 

 5-foot length of the cist) is 22 feet 3 inches long ; the width ranges from 

 3 feet 6 inches to 1 foot ; the maximum height is 2 feet 10 inches. The 

 accident must have happened while the cam was still in use, as interments 

 were found both inside and outside the spot where the stone had slipped — the 

 latter having presumably been deposited after the blocking of the passage 

 barred the entrance to the central cist. This is the only earn of the series 

 with a dovMe row of kerb-stones surrounding its base. There is a space of 

 5 to 7 feet between the two rows. The inner kerb is composed of larger 

 stones, which are about sixty in number. The diameter of the earn at the 

 base is about 100 feet, its height about 20 feet. The plan and section of this 

 earn and of the entrance passage and chamber will be foimd on Plate XXII ; 

 Plate XIV, fig. 3, shows the earn (with Carn G in the distance) ; Plate XIV, 

 fig. 4, shows the entrance. This photograph was taken after we had cut down 

 on the lintels. 



K. — In design this fine carn resembles G-, but, though rather larger, is, 

 from the point of view both of construction and artistic finish, vastly its 

 inferior. A poor, rotten stone has been used, and all the lintels are in 

 consequence cracked : some of the side-stones have also settled. It is, indeed, 

 rather surprising that the whole chamber has not collapsed. The chamber is 

 much higher in K than in G, though it is in this respect less than the great 

 ruined chamber in F : the maximum height is 12 feet 2 inches. The mound 

 itself is about 20 feet in height and 71 feet in diameter. The total length of 

 the chamber, from the entrance to the back of the central recess, is 22 feet 

 10 inches: the maximum breadth through the two side recesses is 15 feet 

 9 inches. The entrance faces almost due north (compass bearings 355°). 

 There is an Ordnance beacon on the carn, the height of which is given as 

 1,062 feet; but the carn itself is not recorded as an ancient monument. 

 Plans and sections of the earn will be found on Plate XXII, and of the chamber 

 on Plate XXI. Plate XV, fig. 1, is a good view of the earn after the door was 

 opened ; Plate XV, fig. 2, shows the interior, looking inwards, and Plate XV 

 fig. 3, shows the entrance passage, looking outwards. 



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