170 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [VoL. IX, 
side of the road from the Mohamedan tomb and the granite 
monoliths (number 12 in the small-scale plan). The grave is 
is not that of a Mohamedan tomb.! Whether it is of the same 
age as the granite monoliths is problematical, but, as can be 
seen from the annexed rough sketches, it presents features 
bly stones of this type are derived from 
the leaf of the Ficus religiosa, the shape of the leaf being 
very clearly defined in the case of certain backstones of 
Hindu sculptures from Java (vide plate XI_)3 
A very small, loose, gravestone of somewhat similar type 
was found lying on the side of the hill which is directly above 
Sheik Ahmad’s tomb. I removed this and placed it under 
cover of the roof over the ktvamat. 
Betore bringing this paper to a close it may, perhaps, be 
worth while to try and see if any comparisons can be made 
between the granite megaliths at Linggi and megalithic monu- 
ments occurring in neighbouring countries, or in those whose 
peoples have blood or other connections with the present or 
former inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula, 
Megalithic monuments are found in Indonesia, as well in 
by the Khasis, the Nagas, the Mikirs, the Ho-Mundas and 
ments for the following purposes :—_ 
(a) As seats for the spirits of the departed. 
() To commemorate a parent or relation. 
(c) To mark the position of tanks, the water of which is 
supposed to cleanse the ashes and bones of those 
who die unnatural deaths. 4 
(d) As seats for weary travellers (flat stones). 
Groups of stones of class b consist usually of 3,5, 7 or 9 
uprights with flat table-stones in front, the uprights being 
called male and the recumbent female stones. 
In Nias standing stones are set up for the spirits of 
! This grave is, however, regarded as kévamat ty the Malays, though 
offerings are seldom made at it now. It is said that formerly, when Sheikh 
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asis, By P. R. T. Gordon, 1914. 
(b) The History of Upper Assam. By L. W. Shakespear, 1914. 
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