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JYNTEA HILLS. 



Chap. XXX. 



The Nurtiung Stonehenge is no doubt in part religious, 

 as the grove suggests, and also designed for cremation, 

 the bodies being burnt on the altars. In the Khasia these 

 upright stones are generally raised simply as memorials of 

 great events, or of men whose ashes are not necessarily, 

 though frequently, buried or deposited in hollow stone 

 sarcophagi near them, and sometimes in an urn placed 

 inside a sarcophagus, or under horizontal slabs. 



The usual arrangement is a row of five, seven, or more 





STONES AT NURTIUNG. 



erect oblong blocks with round heads (the highest being 

 placed in the middle), on which are often wooden discs and 

 cones : more rarely pyramids are built. Broad slabs for 

 seats are also common by the wayside. Mr. Yule, who 

 first drew attention to these monuments, mentions one 



