22 Mr. H. C. Lawlor on 



along the top of the ridge :— 259 ft. ; 250 ft. ; 382 ft. ; 387 ft. ; 

 427 ft. ; 170 ft. ; 205 ft. ; total, 2,080 feet. 



The measurements of the enclosure to the bottom of the 

 inside of the mound are east and west 599 feet, north and south 

 588 feet. The average width of the mound at the base is about 

 80 feet, so that it will be seen the Ring is almost, though not 

 quite circular, with a diameter over all of about 250 yards. 



I have referred to the great depth of the soft top soil cover- 

 ing the hard boulder clay immediately inside the mound. This 

 is carefully shown in the sectional diagram, and proves that 

 originally the mound was at one time considerably higher, a great 

 deal of soft mould having been worn down by weather and 

 spread over the ground at the bottom. 



It is noteworthy that in the immediate vicinity of the 

 Giant's Ring numerous antiquarian remains have from time to 

 time been found. Thanks to the painstaking work of the late 

 Mr. McAdam, editorof theoriginal UUter Jouryial of Archaeology, 

 and the late Mr. Getty, an account of these, so far as they could 

 ascertain ])articulars in the year 1855, was published in that 

 Journal.* Fortunately the farm immediately to the north side 

 of the Ring was then in possession of the late Mr. David Bodel, 

 representative of a family who had been in continuous occupation 

 of the farm for at least three or four generations. Mr. David 

 Bodel and his father before him took an intelligent interest in 

 such matters, and although in agricultural improvements to 

 their farm they had destroyed many ancient monuments, Mr. 

 Bodel was able to supply Mr. McAdam with a pretty full 

 description of such of these monuments as he had eitlier seen or 

 found himself, or his father had described to him. 



One of these was discovered by Mr. Bodel in 1855, and I 

 take the following from Mr. McAdam's article. This ancient 

 sepulchral Cham1)er lies almost due N.AV. of the Giant's Ring, 

 about 4/500 yards distant, in a small plantation of Scotch fir 

 at the west end of the farm house. The floor of the Chamber 

 * Vol. iii, p. 358 et. seq. 



