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and the pendant, perforated by a single hole for suspension, is one inch 

 and a quarter long. Both appear to have suffered from the action of 

 fire ; and have become so decomposed, that it is somewhat hazardous 

 to name the materials of which they are formed. The bead, however, 

 resembles pale gray earthy grit, which has become soft from the decom- 

 position of the felspathic part of the stone, or more probably is blue 

 carboniferous limestone ; and the pendant yellow shale, mixed with 

 whitish particles. 



The floor of compartment / was covered with a closely fitting flag, 

 three feet ten inches long, three feet three inches broad, and nine 

 inches thick. I found no bones resting on its surface, as I had done 

 on the other floor flags in the other compartments furnished with a 

 slab ; but, on raising it, I observed that it covered a layer of finely 

 broken stones, mixed with splinters of charred bones, and having a de- 

 pression of nearly a couple of inches in the centre. This stone, as it 

 rested on the floor, concealed the sculpturing on the lower portion of 

 the stone numbered fourteen, to a height of twenty-two inches from its 

 base. 



Nine of the stones in this cairn are inscribed. 



J. 



This cairn is twenty-three yards N. E. of H, and only three yards dis- 

 tant from L. It is 15 \ yards in diameter, and its present remains, 

 from four to five feet in height, with twelve large stones still in the 

 circumference. The interior had been much disturbed, but left filled 

 up with loose stones and rubbish. The passage, having a bearing of 

 E. 10° S., is seven feet six inches in length, without any upright stone 

 closing its entrance. A roughly-finished brown stone ball, about an 

 inch in diameter, was found near the opening of the passage into the 

 interior chambers. 



Three of the stones in this cairn are inscribed. 



Is 121 yards JST. E. from L, and is 16J yards in diameter. When 

 the interior was cleared out, the large flagstones forming the central 

 chambers were found in a rather disorderly condition. The bearing of 

 the entrance is E. 1 5° JST. Thirteen stones remain round the margin, 

 and no object of antiquarian interest was found here. At a distance 

 of twenty feet to the south-east now lies a pillar stone, six feet long, 

 two feet broad, and one foot thick. 



Two of the chamber stones are inscribed. 



L 



Is 45 yards in diameter, surrounded by 42 large stones, laid lengthwise 

 on their edges, and varying from six to twelve feet in length, and from 

 four to five feet high. Great quantities of the loose stones which 

 formed the apex of this cairn have been removed, of which there are 

 very visible evidences. A curve inwards in the circumference, of ten 



