1g2I.] I. H. N. Evans: A Grave and Megaliths. 167 
portions, a vertical band of the same size running from the 
centre of the top edge of the stone to join the horizontal band 
but not being continued below it. 
I will now describe the reconstructional work done and 
refer to certain interesting objects which were found in the 
course of the excavations :— 
The grave is built at the foot of a small hill, one of its 
longer sides lying towards the swampy ground which I have 
mentioned previously. The first step taken was to clear away 
the earth round the outer edging of stones. On this being 
done it was found that the edge of the structure consisted of 
two courses of squared laterite blocks, one superimposed on 
the other, the blocks of the lower layer being the largest. On 
the side directly below the hill and at the two ends of the 
structure this outer wall was reinforced by a row of laterite 
boulders placed exteriorly against the lower course of stones 
and against the earth which supported it. This feature was 
very much more marked on the side facing the swamp. Here 
the lower course of stones and the earth below it had been 
banked up with very large boulders’ thus :— 
Earth level 
Boulders 
As far as I could ascertain, a part of the foot of the hill 
seems to have been cut away by the people who built the 
grave and a piece of made ground added on the down side to 
thabene method of using boulders to retain the earth of banks or to 
reinforce the foundations of walls is in common use throughout Java komt 
The stones are, however, exposed and not covered with soil as in the instan 
mentioned here. C. Boden Kloss. 
