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was in use as late as the second or third century A.D., that at New Grange, 

 in Ireland, being a magnificent example, with many divisions of its chambers. 

 Other interesting discoveries of remains of urn burial at Wavertree are 

 recorded in the Historic Society's transactions. One of the urns is in the 

 Mayer Museum ; also the few flint implements which were the only tools 

 found with them. With such tools the carvings of the Calderstones and 

 like monuments are supposed to have been made. 



" The manner in which Professor Herdman identified the Calderstones as 

 belonging to a dolmen or sepulchral chamber, having been unable to obtain 

 any tradition of their original state shows his mastery of his subject, and it 

 is to be hoped that he will continue his investigations with our other 

 antiquities that have been hitherto neglected, or, still worse, misnamed and 

 misread by superficial amateur antiquaries." — Yours, &c, 



Rock Ferry. EDWARD W. COX. 



To the Editor of the Daily Post. 

 " Sir, — In answer to Professor Herdman's inquiry as to these, I may say 

 that in 'Enfield's History of Liverpool,' published in 1774, there is a map 

 of the neighbourhood of Liverpool, drawn from a survey made in 1768. In 

 this map, the Calderstones are clearly marked as being in a field, close to a 

 hedge, a short distance to the south of their present site. The cross-roads 

 where they now stand are shown on the map, but the stones are not marked 

 as being there." — Yours, &c, 



19, Sweeting Street, Nov. 19th, 1896. THOMAS C. RYLEY. 



To the Editor of the Daily Post. 

 " Sir, — In your paper of the 17th inst. Professor Herdman suggests that 

 the Calderstones are the remains of a small dolmen. But the dolmens are 

 usually three upright stones, supporting a large table stone, whence the name. 

 There are six Calderstones, which seem to have been each 6 feet high, and 

 there is no trace of a great table stone. May they not rather be the remains 

 of a cromlech, or stone sepulchral cell. The late Mr. Studley Martin knew 

 an old lady, the daughter of a farmer, who lived as a girl near these 

 Calderstones at the beginning of the century. And she remembered when 

 the stones were still covered by a mound of earth or tumulus. Then a 

 great house was built, and the contractor or builder, wanting sand, destroyed 

 the tumulus, in which was found a fine sepulchral urn rudely ornamented 

 outside. This, she said, was taken to a farmhouse in the neighbourhood, 

 and has disappeared. Such was her story ; it seems very probable. I have 

 been much disappointed, after hunting through thirty-seven volumes of the 

 Lancashire and Cheshire Society's "Transactions," to find only one paper 

 on the Calderstones, that by the late Sir J. Y. Simpson, in the 17th volume. 



