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interval of 16 feet, was tried in various places with spade 

 and pick but was found to be undisturbed mountain soil. 

 It evidently formed the southern and main entrance to 

 the circle (see cut, p. 170). A level track, like a road way, 

 leads from here in a curve down the slope of the hill to 

 the hut village (see PL X). 



Tritaph IY. the first on the west side going from S. to N. 

 had evidently been disturbed before, and some of the 

 stones had been displaced and removed, but still on clearing 

 them out the shapes and sizes of the cists were readily 

 distinguishable. The next, V., was pretty perfect. In A 

 some fragments of pottery belonging to 3 urns, calcined 

 bones, 2 flint knives and 2 arrow heads were found, and in 

 the central space between A and C some pottery. In C 

 were some fragments of pottery (at least 2 vessels) at the 

 S.W. and X.E. corners, also a flint knife and another 

 arrow head. 



Tritaph YI. was also a perfect one, and cist A particularly 

 so. In it some flints and pottery were met with in the N.W. 

 corner, and in the centre was the hole excavated under 

 the floor which had evidently once contained an urn and 

 which is referred to above, p. 167 (also PL XII, fig. 1). In 

 C some flints and fragments of pottery were found between 

 the entrance pillars. This completes the circle. Between 

 tritaphs YI. and I. is a space of 18 feet which we tried 

 carefully with pick and spade and found nothing but soil 

 and small stones. It had evidently been left intentionally 

 as the northern opening of the circle, facing down the 

 hill towards Port Erin Bay and Bradda Head. 



With respect to the pottery, we found in all remains of at 

 least 26 vessels the appearance of which showed that they 

 had been used as cinerary urns, and along with them 

 the remains of ashes, charcoal and calcined bones. With 

 the exception of tritaph IY. which had been more dis- 



