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had been very nearly connected in life ; probably husband 
and wife. 
But further : — below the entire mass of this cairn there lay 
the debris of another, and of course, an earlier urn and its 
contents : and these were disposed, not so as simply to 
suggest the idea of accidental or unintentional damage ; but 
were scattered as well as broken ; and more, a long stone, 
about four inches thick by six or seven in width, was set up 
edgeways upon the strewed bones and potten% so as to divide 
one portion from another. 
Here then, there were three chronological steps : 
1st. The original deposit over which this great hill was 
raised. 
2nd. The interment which had been violated. 
3rd. The construction of the inserted cairn : and besides 
this distinct chronological sequence, there were also the 
tokens of something more than mere careless indifference in 
the treatment of the second burial ; — of what seemed to me 
actual despiteful usage. 
Next, a little to the west of the inserted cairn, there was 
foimd an urn of really majestic dimensions — 24 inches high, 
by 17 \ across the mouth — the space in which actually 
occupied by the contained bones was scarcely more than what 
" a feed of corn" might appropriate in a bushel measure. 
In all, and inclusive of the finds already named, there were 
no less than nine secondary interments found in the southern 
flank of this houe ; two of them consisting of calcined bone 
with no accompaniment of urn or flint (one of them, how- 
ever, very carefully protected by three successive overlying 
flag-stones of considerable dimensions) ; and one comprising 
three vases, all of the incense- cup type, all of them evidently 
deposited empty, — one, the largest, six inches in diameter, 
containing only a single calcined human tooth ; and another — 
the second in size, and beautifully marked — carefully closed 
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