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number of small cup hollows, which I did not enumerate, as they have 

 become much defaced by the action of time and the weather, Further 

 down on the face of the stone will be found a double zigzag, nine 

 inches long ; a figure consisting of six concentric arches, seven inches 

 high, and seven inches broad ; three concentric circles, seven inches 

 across ; a cup surrounded by three concentric circles, six inches across. 

 On that portion of the original back of the chair which has not fallen 

 away will be found a cup with two concentric circles, four inches 

 across; and in another place, two separate cups. In front of, and 

 round the base of the chair, considerable quantities of quartz, broken 

 into small lumps, were strewn about. 



On the eastern side, the stones forming the periphery of the cairn curve 

 inwards for eight or nine yards on each side of a point where the passage 

 to the interior chambers commences, on the very margin of the cairn, the 

 bearing of the passage being E. 10° S. The entrance to the passage was 

 closed by two irregular blocks of stone, inside of which were dropped 

 three other large blocks of stone, filling up the passage for five or six feet 

 in length. On the outside of the entrance was placed a loose layer of 

 lumps of quartz. All the roofing flags covering the passage, and more 

 than two -thirds of what originally covered in the central octagonal 

 chamber, had disappeared, leaving the passage and central chambers 

 completely filled up with stones. Among the loose stones over the 

 central octagonal chamber were found three large bones, probably be- 

 longing to a deer. The imperfect portion of the roof that remains, 

 formed by about thirty large flags overlapping one another, rises to ten 

 feet above the level of the floor. The floor of the central octagonal 

 chamber was covered by two large, and three small flags. The largest 

 I have not been able to raise ; but underneath the others were found 

 fragments of charred bones, small broken stones, and pieces of charcoal. 

 The three cists {a, b, and c) are each about four feet square. Above 

 the upright stones forming the walls of each chamber about half a 

 dozen large flags, overlapping one another, are covered in by a horizon- 

 tal slab, forming a chamber about five feet in height, across the entrance 

 into each of which stands a stone about two feet high, leaving an open- 

 ing over it of three feet. 



These three cists were nearly but not entirely filled up with dry, 

 loose stones, from the uncovering of the central chamber round which 

 they are placed. The earth on the floor of each was mixed with splin- 

 ters of burned bones ; while in the centre of cist (b) a circle of earth, a 

 foot in diameter, inclosed about a hatful of charred bones, which were 

 covered with a flag, above which were raised for about two feet alter- 

 nate layers of finely broken and larger stones, among which were found 

 some human teeth, and twenty-four bones, here presented, with the 

 ends apparently ornamented with crossed lines. Among the loose 

 stones at the bottom of the central chamber, and close to the entrance 

 of cist (<?), was found a bronze pin two and a half inches long, with 

 head ornamented, and stem slightly so, and still preserving a beautiful 

 green polish. 



