142 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Alfred 0. Walker (Colwyn Bay) writes to me that 

 his cousin, Mr. Henry Walker, eldest son of Mr. J". N. 

 Walker, says that his father " changed the position of 

 some of the stones," and he has no doubt that he "brought 

 them together into the enclosure." 



Mr. Kobert Gladstone writes (Nov. 25th) as follows : — 



" As regards what I know myself it is not much, but I 

 remember the stones before Mr. Walker of Calderstone 

 enclosed them with the present railings in 1845. There 

 were three or four of the stones standing upright, and 

 others were lying about, one or two at some distance off. 

 The late Mr. ' Studley Martin — whose family lived at 

 Calderstone before Mr. Walker bought the place — told 

 me several cinerary urns had been found among the 

 stones, and these urns were put into a loft at a farmhouse 

 belonging to a Mr. Mercer, where Beechley was after- 

 wards built (where Mr. Blessig now lives), and he (Studley 

 Martin), with other boys, used to play with the urns in 

 the loft, rolling them about and against each other, and 

 throwing stones at them till at last they were all broken 

 to pieces and disappeared. The Calderstones were 

 originally in a tumulus of sand, and the sand was taken 

 away to mix with mortar for building the house called 

 ' Woolton Lodge' — which stood on the site of the 

 present Druid's Cross house (where Sir J. T. Brunner 

 lives). I think the probabilities are all in favour of the 

 Calderstones having been a dolmen, or burying-place, and 

 the position of those that were left standing suggested to 

 Mr. Walker that there had originally been a circle, and 

 he therefore set up the others in a way to complete a 

 rough circle. 



" There is an old man, about 80, in Woolton Village, 

 who says he remembers when the big stones were twice 

 as many as they are now and were lying all about the 



