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composing the cromlech and chambers is again surrounded by 

 two concentric stone circles, the outer circle being about one 

 hundred feet in diameter, and the inner fifty feet. Very little 

 now remains to mark the outline of the circle. The sepulchral 

 character of this very important monument is proved by the 

 finding of cinerary urns in the round chambers. 



9. FINVOY CROMLECH, CRAIGS. 

 Sketch No. 12. 



Although Broadstone cromlech has been frequently described, 

 the subject of this sketch has been apparently overlooked ; yet 

 it is a very typical example, and occurs in a cultivated field close 

 to the public road, within half-a-mile west of the Broadstone, 

 and one mile east of the Presbyterian Church of Finvoy. The 

 cap-stone is a fiat slab, measuring 8 ft. long by 5 ft. 6 in. wide, 

 over eight upright stones, forming a well-marked oval chamber, 

 the major axis of which runs E.N.E. by W.S.W. 



Formerly this monument was almost covered with earth, 

 the cap stone alone being exposed. The earth was removed 

 some years ago, and the monument now stands on the natural 

 surface of the ground. During the excavation the chamber 

 was explored, and a cinerary urn was discovered within. 



10. CLOUGHOGAN CROMLECH, BALLYGILBERT. 

 Sketch No. 13. 



On the eastern slope of Ballygilbert hill, above the old road 

 from Lame to Glenarm, there is a cromlech locally known as 

 Cloughogan. It forms part of a boundary hedge near a farm 

 cottage, and has done service for many years as a pigsty and 

 poultry-house. For this purpose the open space between the 

 uprights have been carefully filled in with small stones. The 

 thrifty housewife who made this change, claims the credit of 

 having built the house. Her worthy spouse, however, contends 

 that the Danes built Cloughogan before the memory of man, 

 and that she only built the byre. This cromlech is about eight 

 miles north of Larne, or three and a half miles south of Glenarm, 



