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were digging in a field, and its remains were at 

 once examined by an expert. What he saw was 

 a great part of a building of roughly dressed 

 stone, circular, with a diameter of nearly fifteen 

 feet. The presence of several tiers of L-shaped 

 nest-holes, their inner arms turning right and 

 left respectively in alternate tiers, left no doubt 

 as to the structure's use. 



It had quite clearly always stood some seven 

 fJeet below the surface of the ground. At a little 

 above this height the walls began to arch in- 

 wards and were covered by a beehive-shaped 

 roof, formed of flat stones of considerable size, 

 placed horizontally.and overlapping each other. 

 The inner surface of this roof was smoothly 

 plastered with a mortar-like cement, but the 

 outside was rough, and it was the observer's 

 opinion that the columbarium was construct- 

 ed with a view to the roof and upper portions 

 of the walls being covered with earth — at any 

 rate at certain times. 



The broken capstone of the roof was found; 

 circular, four feet four inches in diameter, with 

 a round central hole sixteen inches across. A 

 chased line round the stone, half-way between 



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