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This relates only to the cup and ring markings on some of the stones, which 

 Simpson recognised as identical with many that he had figured from the 

 early stone monuments of Scotland. An ancient British cemetery was 

 unearthed at Wavertree in 1867, within a mile and a half of the Calder- 

 stones, in which eight fine sepulchral urns were discovered. The bones they 

 contained had suffered cremation, and were associated with flint implements, 

 but no metals. The find was well described by the late Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith 

 in the Lancashire and Cheshire Historical Society's ' Transactions ' for 1868. 

 Let us trust that Professor Herdman will not rest until he has given us an 

 exhaustive account of all that is known about the only monument of 

 pre-historic man which remains in the neighbourhood of Liverpool." — 

 Yours, &c, 

 44, Rodney Street. JOHN NEWTON. 



To the Editor of the Daily Post. 

 "Sir, — In response to Dr. Herdman's appeal in the Daily Post for any 

 information about the condition and position of the Calderstones at the 

 beginning of this century, I beg to send you the little I have been able to 

 acquire. From time to time I have spoken to many old inhabitants of the 

 locality about these stones, and although their knowledge of them appeared 

 very scanty, they all agreed in saying there was a kind of mound about the 

 stones before their enclosure, This mound, they gave me to understand, 

 was on the spot or very near the spot on which the stones now stand. The 

 most definite and reliable testimony I heard came to me secondhand through 

 two sources — from William Spencer, who kept a farm during the earlier part 

 of this century at what is now the police station in Allerton, 200 or 300 

 yards away from the Calderstones. In 1845, whilst the workmen were 

 engaged by Mr. Joseph Need Walker in building the lodge opposite, and 

 enclosing the stones, this old man used to pass daily with his cows, and stop 

 to talk with the men. One of these workmen told me that he remembered 

 quite well how Spencer once said, pointing to the place, he had taken many 

 a cartload of soil away years ago. The workman said there were no remains 

 of the mound there then, and the stones lay scattered about here and there 

 in front of the lodge. They were collected by the men, who placed them in 

 a circle so as to be just opposite the entrance to Calderstones House. A 

 nephew of the same Spencer also informed me that his uncle used to say that 

 there was a very high and extensive mound on which the stones formerly 

 stood, and that he had removed the soil for the purpose of making mortar 

 in the building of the ' Bragg's ' houses on the Woolton-road. These houses 

 were built by an eccentric Liverpool clergyman of the name of Bragg, before 

 the year 1805. Spencer, it was reported, found an ' urn ' amongst the debris, 

 which he gave to Mr. Nicholas Ashton, of W'oolton Hall. And an old lady 



