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the top of an urn was exposed to view. The diggers then 
went to work with the greatest possible care, and very soon 
a beautiful urn was laid bare exactly in the centre of the ring. 
The urn was embedded in charcoal and calcined bones. It was 
ten inches high and nine inches at the top, tapering to about 
three inches wide at the bottom. There was a rim or collar 
in the upper part of the urn about three inches deep, which 
stood out about one inch in relief from the lower part of it. 
The collar was ornamented, probably by a pointed stick, with 
the herring-bone pattern. The outer part of the urn was plain. 
In clearing away the debris from the urn another one was 
discovered, different in pattern and less in size, but in a very 
perfect state of preservation. 
About two feet from this, on the opposite side of the 
central urn, another urn was discovered and laid bare, by care- 
fully digging round it with a trowel. This urn was also in 
a good state of preservation, and about the size of the second 
one, but differently ornamented. These smaller urns were the 
same shape as the larger central one, but the ornamentations 
were not so fine, and they were made of inferior clay. On the 
south side of the circle, about two feet from the centre, another 
urn was discovered, but it appeared to be insufficiently baked 
when manufactured, and had decomposed and crumbled into 
dust. From the inside of this urn a large quantity of calcined 
human bones and charcoal was dug up, but the bones were very 
fragmentary, and the sex of the person to whom the bones 
belonged could not be determined. Several portions of cranium, 
rib bones, and lower and upper leg bones were found among 
the debris. 
Within a few inches of this urn two small (so called) 
incense cups were found. One of them was very perfect and 
in an excellent state of preservation, and was beautifully 
ornamented all over. These cups were about three inches in 
height and three and a half inches in diameter, but tapered 
a little at the bottom. Indications of three other urns were 
