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only fit to be the contemned accompaniments of the more 
recent interment. 
It seems to me an almost inevitable conclusion that the 
central urn must have been that of a conquering intruder, 
and the surrounding fragments those of a former chief of the 
conquered tribe, whose burial hill, consecrated by the use, 
and the pious regards, and possibly the superstitions of a 
series of generations, had been thus, by the right of the 
strong -hand, appropriated, and its hitherto venerated con- 
tents made subservient as accessories to the, even in death, 
savage pride and insolent triumph of the conqueror. 
Another interesting find was made on the East side of a 
houe, of some thirty-five feet in diameter, and at a point 
about eight feet distant from the centre. It consisted of two 
large nrns placed not simply side by side, but in actual 
contact with each other. The larger of the two, of a form 
occurring only infrequently in our Cleveland Grave-hills, and 
which I have no knowledge of as occurring any where else, 
contained only calcined bones, and fragments of a bone pin 
or two : but in the other, on removing the covering stone 
which protected the mouth, there was at once seen a small, 
but beautifully wrought battle-axe or war-hammer, of fine- 
grained granite, polished. Below this, and covered by a 
considerable quantity of ordinary soil from the moor, which 
must have been placed where it was found at the time of 
interment, was a small, rudely formed incense-cup, inverted 
and empty ; and amid the calcined bones below that, portions 
of four bone pins, and a peculiar article or ornament, consisting 
of a cylindrical piece of bone f inch in diameter, and about If 
long, adorned with a spiral line running . along its entire 
length, and perforated crosswise as well as lengthways. 
I believe I am fully justified in speaking of this as a very 
interesting find ; inasmuch as, independently of the number 
of articles found in the closest relative connection, the fact 
