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place. I conclude that there was a dolmen inside a 

 tumulus of sand and that when the sand was taken away, 

 the stones were thrown about anyhow and the cinerary 

 urns were removed to the loft aforesaid. . . . 



" I have an oil painting, or sketch, of the Calderstones — 

 which belonged to Mr. Studley Martin, which I bought 

 at a sale of his furniture after his death. The painting 

 shows the Calderstones as they were before they were 

 railed in, but I don't know the date. 



" I shall have much pleasure in letting you have this 

 picture to photograph. I had it cleaned and varnished — 

 and its details are quite plain." 



Mr. Gladstone kindly sent me the picture (see fig. 2). 

 It is impossible from it to make out the exact locality, or 

 the point of view ; but the present roads are not repre- 

 sented and the stones are certainly not as they at present 

 stand. They are closer together and in such a position 

 that they might well have formed part of a ruined Dolmen. 



Sir John Brunner, of Druid's Cross, Mr. Charles 

 Maclver, of Calderstone House, and Mr. H. H. Hornby 

 also kindly took more or less trouble in answer to my 

 enquiry, but were unable to give or get from others in 

 their neighbourhood any additional information. 



Finally, after waiting a few days without receiving any 

 further letters, I drew up the following summary of the 

 evidence obtained and of the conclusions I had arrived at 

 as to the probable history of the Calderstones : — 



To the Editor of the Daily Post. 

 " Sir, — I desire to thank your correspondents, and also others who have 

 written to me privately, for the information they have contributed in answer 

 to the questions I raised — namely, first, are the Calderstones in their original 

 position, and condition ; and, second, may they not be the remains of a 

 dolmen or neolithic burial-place ? The evidence that has come out has 

 shown pretty clearly that the first question is to be answered in the negative, 

 and the second in the affirmative. Mr. T. C. Ryley refers us to the map, 

 dated 1768, in ' Enfield's History of Liverpool,' which shows the Calder- 



