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period it was considered that all urn burials were Eoman], 

 containing human bones. They were of globular form, about 

 1 8 inches in diameter, and were made of bluish earth. Near 



Fig. 31. 



the urns also were found a stone chest or coffin, and on digging 

 further, an entire foundation of a triangular building, with three 

 rows of steps, and also a Eoman causeway." [Local Papers 

 quoted in Eichardson's Table Book, Hist. Div. II., p. 94]. 

 "Two urns of ordinary pottery were some years ago, i.e. before 

 1825, discovered near this place." [Mackenzie's Hist. II., p. 24.] 

 "Immediately above Shawdon-hill Farm, and close to the 

 east side of the public road, and about 350 yards from our line, 

 are faint traces of a circular camp, formed apparently of two 

 concentric circles, at about 30 feet asunder ; but the whole is so 

 ploughed down, that even this is partly conjectural. The 

 width of the interior circle is about 130 yards." [MacLauchlan's 

 Memoir, p. 22.] 



TlTLINGTON MODNT. 



" On high ground facing Shawdon Wood House, an urn was 

 found by a hind 30 years ago, in a stone cist. He kept it on a 

 shelf with his stock of tobacco." (Mr Tate's MSS.) The 

 paper on which this has been written has the date of 1852, 

 which points to 1832 as the period when the urn came into the 

 hind's possession. 

 In 



