mutilation about the centre and on one side, there was 
found, inserted in the open stonework which constituted 
at least all the southern half of the hill, a small urn, in 
very fair preservation, but encompassed above and on 
either side with the fragments of an earlier urn : the 
fragments being of such a size and in such connection that 
I was enabled to reproduce its original form and dimensions 
from them. 
I pause here to submit that these instances are entirely 
distinct from the mere casual finding of detached pieces of 
broken pottery in the substance of a gravehill, or in the 
nearer vicinity of the deposit. Broken flints and broken 
pottery are, if not the usual accompaniments of hill-burial, 
yet at least by no means uncommon characteristics, and few 
houes in our district but give evidence to the prevalence of 
the custom of scattering either or both at some one stage or 
more of the process of raising the pile. But in the cases I 
have cited, there was much more than this. There was the 
urn of a former burial broken, and its contents — presumably 
the ashes of a former occupant of the hill- sepulchre — 
dispersed ; and broken and dispersed systematically in con- 
nection with another inserted urn and interment. Would it 
be — could it be — that they were the remains of an ancestor ; 
of a chieftain of the same tribe ; of any noted man of the 
same tribe, though older by several generations ; that were 
dealt with in this fashion ? Nay, surely not. Assuming 
that time enough had elapsed to allow the actual place of 
deposit of any departed chief of bygone generations to have 
been forgotten, yet there is ho analogy, no presumption to 
suggest, and many considerations of divers kinds to negative, 
the supposition that, if accidentally come upon in preparing 
a last resting-place for the remains of a newly departed 
worthy, those of his predecessor would be treated as common 
or without sanctity, much less pertinaciously dealt with as 
