OLD GRAVES IN THE COIMBATOEE DISaEICT. l5 
as stands upon which to place a to d, all of which have 
round bottoms and are unjB.tted to stand alone : h and i, 
are either plates or intended as covers to other vessels. 
The size of each kind is shown below. 
Weight. 
a 
... 5i 
h 
... 10 
c 
... 31 
d 
... 6h 
e 
... Sh 
- 
... 2 
h i ... 
... 6 i 
Breadth. 
4 inches. 
10 at the greatest diameter. 
H 
9 
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After this, four other dolmens were opened. They were 
of a different description and contained nothing but a few 
fragments of bones. The 6th and last is identically the 
same in construction as the first, and in the same manner 
the same kind of pots were found under the stone benches 
above described. This being the same as the first, needs 
no description. As to the others, two were merely single 
stone chambers; one measured 7 feet in length by 5 feet 10 
inches high, and 3 feet 6 inches broad. It was roofed by 
a massive block of stone and floored by a double thickness 
of stone slabs. The entrance was a square hole in the 
eastern wall about two feet from the top, the hole being 
about 1 foot 6 inches square. The other was similar, so 
was not measured. 
The fourth again was different and in one particular the 
most curious of all. 
It was not measured, but is roughly some 7 feet long by 
6 feet or more high by about 4 feet broad. It is entered 
in the same way by a hole in the eastern wall; its pecu- 
liarity is that it is divided into two chambers by a cross 
slab running lengthwise but only 4 feet high. In the 
centre of this wall about half a foot from che bottom of it, 
