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is about five feet below the surface of the ground, and is three 

 feet high in the centre. The depth of the top of the roofing 

 stones below the surface is 18 inches. In the Chamber when 

 found were four urns containing burned bones, besides a number 

 of skulls and other bones, human and otherwise, some burned 

 and some not. The urns were too fragile to preserve ; the bones 

 were removed by Mr. Grattan for examination. After examination 

 the Chamber was carefully closed up, and remains, I believe, 

 still intact. 



Of the other remains of which Mr. Bodel supplied a 

 description, I shall quote from Mr. McAdam's article. 



" In addition to the facts observed upon the present 

 occasion, it may be well to record, upon the testimony of 

 Mr. Bodel, that the field in which this discovery was made 

 forms part of a farm held by him and his family for several 

 generations ; and that, on various occasions, he and his pre- 

 decessors have discovered throughout the same piece of 

 ground indications of extensive interments ; vast quantities 

 of human bones have been turned up by the plough, both in 

 his own time and that of his father, especially in the vicinity 

 of the present dwelling-house. In the boundary fence of the 

 field, facing the Giant's Ring, is an enormous stone which he 

 suspectA to be a Cromlech, and intends to have uncovered. 

 Very near this spot there were taken up in the field, a little 

 below the surface, many cartloads of human bones, but 

 without there being any mound or mark to distinguish the 

 place. On the site of the dwelling-house itself, which is 

 not many perches distant, was a mound, which on being 

 removed at the time of building the house, disclosed several 

 short stone coffins or cists containing earthen urns and 

 burnt bones. In several parts of the same field similar cista 

 were found subsequently, all formed of stone slabs, and 

 having a slab at the bottom and one as a lid.' These in 

 most cases contained urns. The coffins were all shorter 

 than a man. In one of the urns M^as found a skull by Mr 



