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following the hexagonal outline of the stone itself. Mr. Hibbert adds : " It is 

 set on the edge of au odd little oblong elevation of overgrown stones." 



In a later letter (20 Oct.) Mr. Hibbert tells me of a group of two stones 

 about fifteen yards from the edge of the water, in a line drawn across the 

 west end of St. Mary's. One of these is of conglomerate, full of quartz pebbles, 

 &c. It measures 3 feet 6 inches long, and about 3 feet across. A channel 

 about 8 inches wide and 4 inches deep is cut in the upper surface, running 

 parallel with the edge of the stone. On the stone lies a f3at flag of gritstone, 

 adhering so closely to the lower stone that it looks as though it had been 

 cemented on. This upper flag is broken, and two pieces that appear to have 

 covered the ends of the channel are missing: the middle part of the channel 

 is covered with the upper stone. The channel is clean-cut where it lies under 

 the stone ; where it is exposed it is more worn. The total height of the 

 structure is 2 feet. The covering flag is about 6 inches thick. 



XIII. The Standing Crosses, Cross Bases, and Socket Stones (Plates XYI-XYIII) 



In this and the two following sections are enumerated the monuments, 

 which are to be found in four places on the island — ranged round the wall 

 of St. Caimin's, inside, where a number were placed in the restoration 

 works; in the Saints' Graveyard, east of St. Caimin's; in and about St. 

 Mary's ; and at the Anchorite's Cell. The position of each monument is 

 indicated in the following list as it was when I revised my descriptions and 

 drawings at Easter, 191o. Those in St. Caimin's are indicated thus : CXN, 

 CNS, mean respectively the north and south sides of St. Caimin's nave, while 

 CCN, CCE, and CCS, mean the north, east, and south sides of St. Caimin's 

 chancel The numbers denote the numerical order of each monument, counting 

 inward from the door of the church in each case. The stones in the Saints 

 Graveyard are indicated by the letter G, with a number referring to the 

 plan of the Graveyard, Plate XV. A view of the Graveyard will be found in 

 Plate XXV, fig. 2. There are eighty ancient recumbent slabs in this enclosure, 

 but only those indicated with a number and here described bear any device or 

 inscription ; the rest are blank, and seem always to have been so. The few in 

 St. Clary's and at the Anchorite's Cell have theii- position described in full, 

 without abbre\iation. References to the Plates in the Board of Works Eeport 

 and to Petrie's " Christian Inscriptions in the Irish Language " are added, 

 these publications being denoted by the abbreviations BW and CHL 

 respectively. 



In the present section the free-standing crosses and bases for such are 

 described. In the next section we take I he slabs, nearly all of which have a 



