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150 different pieces of bones ; 

 50 portions of limb bones ; 

 30 other bones — shoulder blades, &c. ; 

 48 portions of skulls ; 



8 portions of jaws, with teeth remaining ; 

 14 separate teeth. 



The three chambers were found filled with an indiscriminate mix- 

 ture of stones, broken bones, and earth ; the latter in a soft, stiff, re- 

 tentive state, although the weather had been previously very fine. 

 This mixture was picked and removed with great care ; and in it were 

 obtained, apparently without having been placed there in any definite 

 order, one end of a bone bodkin; one half of a bone ferrule; six pieces 

 of bone pins ; * one tine of an antler, three inches long ; fourteen frag- 

 ments of very rude brown earthenware or pottery, evidently portions of 

 urns, much blackened by fire, particularly on the inside surface ; ten 

 pieces of flint ; 155 sea shells, in a tolerably perfect state of preserva- 

 tion, and 110 other shells in a broken state; eight varieties of small 

 lustrous or shining stones; 100 white sea pebbles, and sixty others of 

 different shades of colour. 



At (a) was found a small brown stone ball ; and at (b) a flake of 

 bone, measuring six by four inches, which appears to have been polished 

 on one side, and may probably have been used as a dish. 



Underneath the stone basin in the northern chamber were found 

 imbedded in damp earth, and mixed with small splinters of burnt bones, 

 six stone balls, the largest about an inch in diameter, but in so soft a 

 state, that they could scarcely be touched without injuring them. Five 

 of these appear to be white carbonate of lime, and the other porphyry. 



Chiefly in the southern chamber, and about the entrance to it, for 

 the most part imbedded in wet stiff earth, I got the most remarkable 

 collection of bone implements, glass, amber, bronze, and iron, which 

 probably has ever been found together under similar circumstances. 



In some few instances where the bone implements chanced to be 

 protected by an overlying stone, their original polish is still perfect ; 

 in all other cases they were found in a state as soft as cheese, and could 

 with difficulty be extracted from the stiff earth without breaking them. 

 Such, indeed, was their soft state, that I believe they could not have 

 been preserved for many years longer, and probably many have become 

 entirely decomposed. The shapes of several will be found peculiar and 

 different, and well worth the careful study of the antiquary. Many of them 

 resemble in size and shape the flint knives of Scandinavia. I ha^e been 

 enabled to save 4071 fragments of these in a plain state — once polished, 

 but without further ornamentation : 108, nearly perfect in shape ; 60, 

 where the bone material is little decomposed, and still retains the ori- 



* One ornamented bone pin, an inch and three-quarters in length, still retains the 

 metallic rivet which fastened on a head. 



