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turbed before our examination than any of the others, and 

 of II. from which, however, a perfect urn had been formerly 

 taken, we found some pottery in every tritaph, but with 

 two exceptions it was always in the tangential cists. 

 The urns numbered from 2 to 5 in a cist, but there may 

 have been more. From the fragmentary remains the 

 vessels seem to have been all between 9 and 12 inches high 

 and the outside diameter at the mouth varies from 8 to 11 

 inches. They show some diversity of shape, colour, lip, 

 and surface (PL XII, figs. 3 — 5). About seven vessels 

 show traces of patterns. These are of the simplest 

 kind, consisting of lines impressed diagonally or per- 

 pendicularly across the lips (PL XII, fig. 5) and of lines 

 diagonal, horizontal and perpendicular either drawn with 

 a pointed stick or formed by punctured holes on the walls. 

 There is no colouring save that given by firing and 

 stains. The paste appears in all to contain a mixture of the 

 local slate and quartz with a good deal of mica probably 

 from disintegrated granite which would be found in the 

 boulder clay in the neighbourhood. With respect to 

 shape the most notable thing about the vessels is that 

 several of them appear to have had broad overlapping 

 rims or lips (PL XII, fig. 4), not a common type in the 

 Isle of Man, and some also median bands and grooves. 

 On the floor of one of the huts we found remains of a 

 couple of small earthen vessels similar in colour, material 

 and style to those met with in the cists. 



The flints obtained have already been enumerated. 

 The arrow heads were all of the same type, leaf shaped, 

 showing secondary working and careful finish (PL XII, 

 fig. 2). Two are worked on both faces, the third, which 

 has lost its point, is worked only on one face. The knives 

 are all of the same type, the flat face left intact, the convex 

 trimmed by secondary working on one edge only. The 



