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Stone No. 5. 



Besides these, there are on the headstone and floor'of the chamber cer- 

 tain sculptures which have been previously known to exist. That on the 

 headstone is a rude incised representation of some object which appeared 

 to the writer to bear more resemblance to a plumed hatchet -head 

 than to any other definite object. The plumed hatchet has been ob- 

 served by the writer elsewhere on a monument of similar character ; 

 but for which circumstance he would be at a loss to assign any definite 

 intention to this combination of rude, but boldly incised lines. 



On the large flagstone, which forms the floor of the chamber, there 

 appears, in strong relief, an elongated flat object, 7 J feet long by about 

 5 inches broad, extending across the breadth of the chamber, of a 

 somewhat serpentine outline, having at either end mamelon-like pro- 

 tuberances. It appeared to the writer to bear some resemblance to 

 an unstrung bow, or possibly to a yoke for draught. Its outline, how- 

 ever, is much abraded, and the imperfectness of its resemblance to 

 whatever object it may have been intended to represent is perhaps due to 



