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on the floor, just at the junotion of the central and right recesses, was an urn 

 (Plate XXV, fig. 2). It is of the food- vessel type, and did not contain anything 

 but a little bone dust. The figure shows its ornamentation. 



The floor of the left recess was covered with large flat stones ; under these 

 was a layer of burnt bones, about one foot in depth. A large number of 

 fragments of pottery were found among the bone debris. These, however, 

 were so small that it has been impossible to reconstruct the urns in any way, 

 or to determine their exact shape or number. 



On the shelf in this recess a number of human bones, and the much- 

 broken portion of the upper part of a pin made of bone, were found 

 (Plate XXIV, fig. 19). 



There were a large number of stones in the central recess, some of them 

 eighteen inches long. On the removal of these it could be seen that at the 

 further end of this recess there were three compartments, separated by vertical 

 stones about sixteen inches long, and nearly square ; these and the larger 

 compartment were filled with burnt bones. On these bones being riddled, two 

 stone pendants, two small red beads, a small stone ball, and three broken 

 bones, with the remains of a fourth, were found (Plate XXIV, figs. 28, 32, 4, 

 7, 14, and 15). Numerous fragments of pottery were also discovered ; among 

 these were pieces of the ornamented rims of two different urns (Plate XXV, 

 figs. 6 and 7). 



The surface of the floor of the right recess was covered with a large 

 number of flat stones, under which was a layer of burnt bones. The flat stones 

 appear to have been used as trays on which to carry the bones into the recess 

 after burning. Careful sifting of the bone debris disclosed a number of very 

 small fragments of pottery, two small stone balls, some portions of a bone 

 pin, the heads of two bone needles, and a curious object made from the rib of 

 some animal (Plate XXIV, figs. 1, 6, 18, 22, 31, and 33). 



When sorting the human remains collected in this earn. Professor 

 Alexander Maealister found a portion of the ornamented rim of an urn and 

 two small fragments of pottery. The portion of the rim is figured (Plate XXV, 

 fig. 5). He also discovered the heads of two bone pins, a pointed implement 

 broken and pierced near the point, two other shaped bones, and another 

 implement shaped from the leg bone of an ox, Bos longifrons (Plate XXIV, 

 figs. 2, 3, 5, 12, 13, and 17). 



Cam 0. — The entrance to this earn was found on the south-east side, and 

 disclosed a pentagonal cist, covered by one single stone, with a pentagonal 

 anti-chamber of small size, covered by two stones. An urn was resting on 

 the top of a pile of burnt and unburnt bones, intermixed with flat sandstone 



