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the bone itself is concerned appears to me to be like that of a 

 dog. At B I found a piece of bone about 4 inches in length, which 

 also appears to be the bone of an animal, and at X three small 

 bone-like fragments. A cinder-like object and nodule I picked 

 out of the earth at the side of the opening. All the soil in the 

 opening was taken out, and along with that lying at the edge of 

 it, turned over and examined, but nothing else was discovered. 

 On clearing out the soil the shingle was laid bare, quite compact 

 and showing no sign of previous disturbance. The circum- 

 stances attending the discovery of these stones as told by 

 James Wilson, one of Mr Cunningham's ploughmen, are as 

 follows : — 



On Saturday, 3rd October, while ploughing in the field, the 

 coulter of his plough caught in the edge of one of the large red 

 stones, and partly raised it. He thought the stone might cover 

 something, and he and the other ploughmen cleared off the sur- 

 face soil and found the red flat stones with the others lying about 

 them. They raised the stone, and found under one of the red 

 ones at A a jawbone with some teeth in it, and at B another 

 jawbone about half the size. There were some other things like 

 bones, but the} 7 crumbled away. 



Nothing else was seen or found, but they saw there was 

 another stone at the point C, with which they did not interfere. 

 The jawbones were left lying, and he did not know what had 

 become of them. I showed him the one I had picked up, and 

 he said he thought that was the big one. I then had the soil 

 cleared away to the south and east of the point C, when the 

 following arrangement of stones was disclosed about 6 to 9 inches 

 below the surface. 



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