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Figures of animals and human beings were dispersed in every direc- 

 tion. These are more fully noticed in the subjoined. 



Catalogue of Antiquities dug out of the Cairn. 

 In Pottery. 



1. An entire urn 15 inches high, in shape two hollow globes con- 

 nected by a long neck from which project broad mouldings and 

 fillets giving the vessel the appearance of four smaller ones placed 

 one upon the top of the other. This urn has a lid with a figure of a 

 peacock upon it as a handle, and may be taken as a specimen of the 

 rest in the cairn. 



2. Lid of an urn with a coiled snake on the top of it. 



3. Cover of an urn, its handle being the figure of a tiger. 



4. Ditto surmounted by the figure of an elephant. 



5. Ditto having the figure of an animal resembling the hippopo- 

 tamus for a handle. 



6. The figure of a dog standing on the cover of an urn. 



7. The head and neck of an unicorn. 



8. The figure of a quadruped with four humps on its back. 



9. The. head and fore-part of a sheep with a bell round its neck. 



10. Numerous heads of the bufFaloe. 



11. A small buffaloe with a bell tied to its neck. 



12. A double headed bird which I can only compare with the old 

 wood-cut of a bird wrth two heads in the travels of Sir John Maun- 

 derville in the M. S. S. of the Harleian Collection. 



13. Five figures of birds. 



14. An urn cover with a figure holding a shield in his left arm, 

 the right raised and extended as in the act of brandishing a weapon : 

 he has a terrible and frightful aspect, and resembles the Scythian God 

 Woden., 



15. A quadruped with a neck out of all proportion, and on whose 

 back are seated two female figures, the first is in a martial costume, 

 a belt passes round her neck and crosses in front, her waist is encir- 



' cled with a girdle in which is inserted the head of a scabbard, she 

 " carries a shield in her left hand, and her right is raised as in the 

 last figure, a necklace passes round her neck and her ears arc orna- 

 mented with rings. The figure behind her is also a female, her right 

 arm rests on her hip and the left is raised to the head supporting 

 something upon it. 



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