1g2I.] I. H. N. Evans: A Grave and Megaliths. 163 
replaced by a properly graded larger one, put in along this 
line to carry off some of the water. When this had been done 
I had two tributary ditches driven from near the side of the 
tomb to the main ditch, so as to enclose the Pédang and the 
other large monoliths of ‘the group between them. Next, the 
ground having become sufficiently dry, the soil surrounding 
the monoliths was excavated, so as to leave them standing on 
only a smallisland. The material thus removed consisted of 
about a foot of humus followed by rather more than the same 
amount of white sand, under which again was a more or less 
peaty stratum, about five or six inches deep, which contained 
twigs, leaves and branches of trees. This peaty layer was in 
turn succeeded by a dark greyish clay. 
en overhead tackle had been got into position for 
lifting the monoliths, so that they might be placed on a 
cement raft, I decided to do the work bit by bit and to deal 
with the lower part of the Sudu! first. Having secured it 
firmly, ready for hoisting, I had the surrounding soil cleared. 
away and found that its lower end wassunk in the ground 
to a depth of two feet only. The base of the Pédang proved 
to be ai less deeply embedded as it only reached a depth 
of 14 foo 
As a two monoliths were the most deeply set in the 
ground, if any, we may take them into consideration when 
determining the horizon of the land surface at the time when 
these monuments wee erected. I have remarked that the 
present accumulation of humus with the white sand amounts 
to a little over two feet while the bases of none of the monu- 
' ments reach a greater depth than this. I am inclined to think 
that the top of the white sand was probably the surface of the 
soil at the time when the megaliths were set up unless some 
intervening layers were denuded in the period, if any, 
between the construction of the megalithic group and the 
deposition of the present humus. 
The view that the layer of sand, or the top of it, was the 
ancient land surface is supported by the fact that it contains 
numerous small fragments of charcoal, and in it were found 
the only objects of interest that we discovered while making 
our excavation around the group of monoliths. 
These comprised four small button-shaped objects of blue 
glass—one of them opaque, the other three transparent—a 
piece of greenish-grey céladon-ware, slightly ribbed on its 
convex or outer side, which looks as if it had been a part of 
a cup’; anda lid, somewhat like that of a small teapot, of 
which the decoration is in under-glaze painting in a dark 
| The top - it will be remembered, had been broken off. There were 
see two portions (Nos. 93 & 101 
Ss grey ware, according to Sir Hercules Read, who has inspected 
some oi the ——* of pottery, may, perhaps, have been made at Sawan- 
khalok in Siam 
