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once informed me that when she was a young girl, say, about 1820, she heard 

 that human remains had been found in the mound." — Yours, &c, 



Nov. 19th, 1896. R. E. ROBERTS. 



A few days afterwards Mr. Cox added the following 

 to the information given in his former letter. This 

 appeared on November 23rd. 



To the Editor of the Daily Post. 

 "Sir, — In 'Lewis's Topographical Dictionary,' my copy of which was 

 published in 1849, is the following account of these antiquities : — ' Here (at 

 Allerton) is a large monument called Calderstones, in digging about which, 

 more than sixty-years ago, urns of coarse clay were found, containing human 

 bones. They were surrounded by a neat iron palisade in 1845.' This 

 account shows that about 1789 this mound was disturbed, and it remarkably 

 bears out the account given by the late John Peers, who saw it at its 

 subsequent destruction. The urns, and possibly other relics, when this took 

 place, had been previously removed, and the contents evidently thrown out 

 into the soil. Doubtless the dolmen, or sepulchral chamber, was about 1789 

 ruined, as about 1814 the stones were found 'tumbled about.' The quantity 

 of bones spoken of were also the contents of a number of urns. This ad- 

 ditional information points to the conclusion that the tumulus with its 

 chamber was a tribal burying-place, probably of the late Celtic age, either of 

 the bronze or late neolithic period. It also indicates, if this statement is 

 exactly worded, that the urn burials were most likely secondary interments, 

 as they were found in ' digging about ' the stones, not within the Cist-vaen. 

 In this vicinity, therefore, we should expect to find traces of a primitive 

 settlement, and, as a matter of fact, a camp is marked on Woolton Hill in 

 early copies of the Ordinance Survey, at a point overlooking the Calder- 

 stones." — Yours, fee, 



EDWARD W. COX. 



Other letters appeared during the following week, from 

 Mr. James Thornely, Mr. J. F. Mansergh, Mr. W. 

 Spensley, Mr. William Bristow, and Mr. J. Thompson, 

 which, however, added little to the evidence given above. 

 Mr. Thornely remarks in the course of his letter : — 



"I remember, however, being told by the late 

 Mr. Ambrose Lace that the stones were originally under 

 a heap of sand, and that Mr. Eoscoe, then residing at 



