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fiat slab, 5 feet 2 inches by 3 feet 6 inches in dimensions. The long axis of 

 the cist lay north and soutii. It contained the skeleton of a man, young or in 

 quite early middle age, with at his head a food-vessel. This was broken 

 when found, but the meddling of curious visitors had reduced it still 

 further, and only the bottom was forthcoming when I arrived. When I saw 

 the skull it struck me at once as being singularly brachycephalic for a 

 Bronze- Ao'e Irish skull ; the jaw also seemed to me to be unsymmetrical, 

 probably for some pathological reason. However, when I returned to Dublin 

 I submitted the bones to Professor A. Francis Dixon, and obtained from him 

 a report upon them, which I append. 



12 5 4 Feet 



Fig. 1.— riaii of Cists. 



The second cist, B, was 10 feet north-east of A. Unlike A, it lay east 

 and west, and was not built with the careful regularity of A. On plan it 

 was wedge-shaped, 2 feet wide at the broadest (eastern) end, tapering to 

 1 foot 6 inches at the other ; the length was 3 feet 6 inches. The cover-slab 

 was 2 feet 10 inches at the eastern end, tapering to 1 foot 8 inches at the 

 western end ; its length was 4 feet. Inside the cist was the skeleton of a 

 girl of sixteen or seventeen years of age. The epiphyses of the joints had not 

 yet adhered to the bones to which they belonged, and the wisdom-tooth was 

 only just sprouting. At the head had been placed a well-made and well- 

 ornamented food-vessel, apparently of rather late type. No other deposits were 

 found in either cist. 



On the cover-slab of cist B there were two cup-shaped depressions, one 

 circular, the other a rather irregular oblong ; but I could not satisfy myself 

 that either of these was artificial. 



