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others were found mixed with the deposit of human bones and 

 vases on the floor of the secondary chamber C. to the south of 

 the gallery. It was therefore evident that these two chambers 

 had been erected after, perhaps long after, the interment repre- 

 sented by this caliciform vase. Further proof of their later 

 date is given by Mr. Lukis, who states that the forms of the 

 vases he found in these secondary chambers differed from those 

 he had found in the central chamber. They had all round 

 bases and were without ornamentation, exactly similar to those 

 that he had found in Le Tombeau du Grand Sarrazin, a small cist 

 a short distance from the dolmen of Dehus, while those from the 

 central chamber had all flat bases and were of a coarser and 

 thicker paste. He also notes that the sixth prop from the 

 entrance on the south side, which had supported the fourth 

 capstone, had been skilfully moved from its original position, 

 and had been partly turned round so as to make a narrow 

 passage to give entrance from the gallery into the secondary 

 chamber C. ; a work, when we consider the weight of the cap- 

 stone resting on the prop, that bears evidence to the engineering 

 skill of Neolithic man. 



The two other secondary chambers B. and D. nearest to the 

 entrance of the gallery seem to have been the latest constructed 

 of all. In B. were found the two kneeling skeletons, one facing 

 east and the other west, described by Mr. F. C. Lukis in an 

 article in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association 

 (Vol. I., pp. 25-29). No vases or other objects were found with 

 them. In the other chamber D. he noted a similar alteration 

 in the burial customs of the people using this portion of the 

 dolmen, while in the other parts of the dolmen at least one vase 

 and other objects had been found with each skeletal deposit. 

 In chamber D. he found no less than three deposits of 

 skeletal remains, each resting upon a rude pavement of flat 

 sea- worn stones, and covered with a thick layer of limpet 

 shells, but with the exception of a bone dagger and a large bowl 

 on the floor of the chamber, no other objects were discovered. 

 The bowl was found in an inverted position resting on three 

 small angular blocks of stone, and beneath it were a few human 

 bones. Around it were three skeletons lying on their sides in 

 a crouched position. In the two upper layers were masses of 

 human bones heaped together without order, as if the bodies 

 had been stripped of flesh before burial in the dolmen. 



These facts point to the use of the dolmen as a place of 

 burial over a long period, a period long enough to have allowed 

 for the introduction of a new form of pottery and an alteration 

 in burial customs. As the human figure sculptured on the 

 capstone proves that the dolmen was erected, at earliest, very 

 late in the Neolithic period, it is therefore very probable that it 

 was continued to be used in the 1st Bronze Age. This would 



