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to which we may attribute it, remain to be briefly noticed. I 

 was told by the labourers that, in my absence, they had found 

 several urns, large and small, in prosecuting the digging of the 

 later trenches. Fragments of these supposed urns were produced, 

 which certainly bore a close resemblance to unscored pottery ; 

 but on nearer inspection they proved to be portions of the crumb- 

 ling whin already mentioned, and they contained numerous small 

 fossils. Two characteristic urns, however, were discovered. That 

 which was not in any cist had been placed on a flat stone in a 

 line with the paved way, and was protected from injury by four 

 small surrounding slabs, being probably covered originally with 

 another slab since displaced. A fragment, showing the peculiar- 

 scoring, is figured (fig. 3). This cinerary urn was seventeen 

 inches in diameter and thirteen inches high, of a somewhat flat- 

 tened form, with a rounded or slightly convex bottom, (the 

 result, perhaps, of external pressure in a damp soil,) which the 

 plough pierced in its inverted position. It seemed as if it had 

 been made on the spot for its special purpose, and never used in 

 a domestic capacity, as it could not stand alone if this was the 

 original shape. After the calcined bones had been placed within 

 it the rim had apparently been cemented to the bottom slab with 

 damp clay to preserve them more securely. In the midst of the 

 zigzag lines of scoring around the upper part of the urn, for 

 like cinerary urns generally it was plain beneath, and embedded, 

 indeed, in various parts of the pottery of both urns, but especially 

 distinct in this larger one, were numerous bright specks of a 

 golden colour, no doubt particles of mica mingled with the na- 

 tural clay. The portions of the second urn found in the eastern 

 cist were so far recovered that an entire side was obtained, from 

 which the annexed sketch has been made (fig. 4). It is of a 

 more graceful shape, of the so-called " food- vessel" type, and 

 much smaller, having dotted scorings, made with a triangularly 

 pointed instrument, ornamenting it from top to bottom. The 

 dimensions are — six inches high, seven and a half inches the top 

 diameter, and three and a half inches at the bottom. Unscored 

 patches occurred at intervals of two or three inches around the 

 urn, below the overhanging rim, from which little ears had 



