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on it and fragments of pottery from ^ to f inch thick. 

 The pottery evidently belonged to a crock-like vessel with 

 a lip, and a reconstruction showed the mouth to have been 

 about 4^ inches across. 



Another part of this village which we excavated 

 proved to be a group of 4 huts varying in inside diameter 

 from 6 feet to 12 feet 6 inches. The largest, of which the 

 foundation stones all appeared to be in position, was 

 rectangular and had an entrance about 3 feet square at the 

 N.E. end ; it was separated from the others by a wall 

 3 feet thick. A few small flat stones were found on part 

 of the ancient floor, but nothing that was an undoubted 

 hearth. In one of these huts was found a flint scraper, 

 in another a small flint flake with two cutting edges. 

 Perhaps a more remarkable find was a stone 5^- inches by 

 If inches by j inch, of which one face was polished, having 

 probably been used as a whetstone for polishing flint 

 implements, or as a rubbing or polishing stone in curing 

 and preparing skins. There were also found some small 

 flints and quartz pebbles which may have been used for 

 striking a light. Possibly the white quartz pebbles, a 

 great number of which were also met with in the cists of 

 the circle, had been used as " pot-boilers." If the rudely 

 baked clay vessels were not able to stand much fire the 

 contents may have been cooked by dropping in these 

 stones previously heated on the hearth. This explanation 

 may account for the small pebbles in the huts, but scarcely 

 for the great numbers found in the graves (see below). 



Somewhat further east than this village of " Lag-ny- 

 Boirey " we found the circular foundations of 3 or 4 more 

 huts measuring from 8 to 12 feet in diameter, and like the 

 others these are on the line of one of the ancient fences 

 (see fig. 9). Lower down the hill and still further to the 

 east are half a dozen more such hut foundations. Their 



