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excavated measured inside 8 by 3 yards, and appeared to 

 consist of two dwellings. The foundation stones were still 

 in position and marked out a roughly rectangular building, 

 with a division across the middle, having at the S.W. end 

 what was probably an entrance passage 4 feet long by 3 

 feet wide, but partly built up like a step at the outer end. 

 At a depth of about 18 inches we came on what was 

 evidently the ancient floor with some charcoal on it and 

 fragments of pottery from ^ to f inch thick. The pottery 

 evidently belonged to a crock like vessel with a lip, and a 

 reconstruction showed the mouth to have been about 4J 

 inches across. 



Another part of this village which we excavated proved 

 to be a group of 4 huts varying in inside diameter from 6 

 feet to 12 feet 6 inches. The largest, of which the found- 

 ation stones all appeared to be in position, was rectangular 

 and had an entrance about 3 feet square at the N.E. end ; 

 it was separated from the others by a wall 3 ft. thick. A 

 few small flat stones were found on part of the ancient 

 floor, but nothing that was an undoubted hearth. In one 

 of these huts was found a flint scraper, in another a small 

 flint flake with two cutting edges. Perhaps a more re- 

 markable find was a stone 5^- inches by If inches by f inch, 

 of which one face was polished, having probably been used 

 as a rubbing or polishing stone in curing and preparing 

 skins. There were also found some small flints and quartz 

 pebbles which may have been used for striking a light. 

 Possibly the white quartz pebbles, a great number of which 

 were also met with in the cists of the circle, had been used 

 as "pot-boilers." If the rudely baked clay vessels were not 

 able to stand much fire the contents may have been cooked 

 by dropping in these stones previously heated on the hearth. 

 This explanation may account for the small pebbles in the 





