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together with some charcoal and flint flakes. Six urns, 

 all broken by down-growing roots of gorse, bramble, and 

 grass, measuring from 8 to 12 inches high, were found, 

 one of which was ornamented by lines of short strokes 

 without definite design ; one also had a sort of chevron 

 pattern inside the lip. These contained incinerated bones 

 and earth. The largest was 28 inches in diameter. 

 Another, 9j inches high, was 9 inches in diameter. When 

 subsequently the rest of the mound was removed, no more 

 pottery was met with, nor was there any trace of a cist. 



Another mound at Cronk Aust, Lezayre, now levelled,* 

 measured 30 feet diameter and 6 feet high, and was com- 

 posed of soft red sand and gravel. Near the centre was 

 a small urn (fig. 23), filled with calcined bones, and placed 

 mouth upwards, just above the original level of the soil, 

 upon a thin band of dark burnt earth and charcoal. It 

 measured 4|in. high by 6^in. greatest diameter, and was 

 of unusual shape, decorated with simple but effective 

 design. 



In this mound, about six feet from the last urn, was a 

 larger one, 12m. high, with diameter across the mouth 

 9^-in., and across the bottom 3^in. This also was filled 

 with calcined bones, and set, mouth downwards, about 

 4 feet below the surface of the mound. A flint, possibly 

 a rude arrow-head, ljin. by Jin. was found with some 

 ashes about eight yards away, and about 6 feet below what 

 appeared to have been the original surface. 



Many of the mounds in the North and West of the 

 Island have been found to contain from one to twelve, and 

 even fourteen urns, measuring from 12 to 14 inches high 

 (some were much larger), and sometimes highly orna- 

 mented. They are generally placed mouth downwards, 

 sometimes on a flat stone, and are filled with burnt bones. 



*Yn Lioar Mamiinagh, Vol. I., p. 89. Manx Book, Vol. III., p. 91. 



