830 DISCOVERY OF TWO CISTS. 



flint implements of small size, fragments of charcoal, and in 

 the South-East corner a fragment of the base of a vase of 

 thick coarse potteiy and a small quantity of very decayed 

 bone. Evidently an interment had been made within the 

 enclosure; The stones forming the enclosure seem to have 

 been placed on the surface of the soil or very little beneath it, 

 except on the South side which was built np with two rows of 

 dry stone walling. One stone at the North-West corner was 

 buried about 2 feet in the soil. 



?"•■■: It is very probable that other similar graves may be 

 discovered in the vicinity. 



GEOLOGICAL NOTE 



ON THE POSITION OF THE CISTS AT ROUSSE. 



The cists are placed on the same deposits as at LTslet. The 

 raised beach here is a sloping one as is the LTslet beach. 

 The Dolmen at the latter place is on the top of the beach and 

 is :on a flat surface. At liousse the beach is also a sloping 

 one, but the top has not been chosen, hence the cists are not on 

 level ground but follow each other on the slope, the lower one 

 being inclined downward. Here also the cists rest on the 

 black sand which overlies the beach deposits in both cases. 



The contents of the cists, which appear to be the original 

 filling, is a loam, and seems to me have been derived from a 

 forest surface. If that is so, we must, believe that the land 

 surface between Rousse Tower and the nearest higher land 

 was much higher than at present, and that it was covered by 

 forest growth. The Neolithic men would have chosen a 

 gentle .slope on what appeared to them a gentle hill and have 

 dug down to a solid surface, placing their graves conforming 

 to the surface of the hill and filling in with the loam which 

 was near to hand. ; :' 



- : .We know that the sea was at that time far away and the 

 changes of sea level would not be evident to them. 



