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A 8 . 



On the southern scalp of the hill, in a most conspicuous position, 

 sixty yards south-west from D, and nearly close to the southern side of 

 the present deer-park wall, once stood a cairn, twenty-two yards in 

 diameter. Its present remains are not more than a foot or two in height, 

 consisting of small rabble stones, the debris of the former cairn, which 

 is now covered with green grass. 



B. 



Forty- six yards to the west of D are the remains of a cairn seven 

 yards in diameter. The loose stones which formed it are nearly all gone, 

 leaving in the centre three large flags, laid on edge, forming a chamber 

 twelve feet in length, and two feet in breadth, pointing in the direction 

 of E. 20° S. 



In clearing out this chamber several fragments of charred bones were 

 found mixed with the earth at the bottom. Two of these I present as 

 specimens, as they appear, as well as all the others found here, to have 

 assumed an unusual degree of heaviness. 



C. 



Sixty yards to the south-west of D will be found the remains of a 

 cairn, five yards in diameter. Nearly all the stones have been removed, 

 leaving only four large stones still marking the site. At the distance 

 of twenty-five feet to the north of the cairn now lies prostrate a pillar 

 stone, which, like the celebrated Menhir* of Quintin (Cotes du JN"ord) 

 which is nine metres over ground, formerly stood upon its smaller 

 end. It measures seven feet long, three feet six inches broad, and one 

 foot thick. 



D. 



This has been the largest of all the cairns in the range, the diameter 

 of its base being sixty yards. The north and east sides have been 

 left untouched ; but on the south and west, for nearly 100 yards round 

 the base, and extending inwards to a distance of twenty-four yards from 

 the circumference towards the centre, the dry, loose stones composing 

 the cairn have been entirely removed. The height of what remained 

 of the cairn,' before commencing any operations upon it, measured 

 twenty-eight paces in sloping ascent from the base to the summit. The 

 original circle of fifty-four large flag stones, laid on edge round its base, 

 is still perfect ; and, on the eastern side, towards a point indicated by 

 E. 20° S., denoting the entrance or passage to the interior chambers, 

 these marginal stones curve inwards for twelve paces in length. As 

 the cairn at this point — which, judging from analogy, would indicate 

 the direction of the passage or entrance — appeared not to have suffered 

 previous injury, Mr. Naper and Mr. Hamilton from the first had strong 

 hopes of finding the interior chambers and their contents in their origi- 

 nal state. 



P u Memoire sar les Monuinens Primitifs," p. 17, par A. Carro : Paris, 1863. 



