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their Points nppermoft, and their larged Parts down- 
ward. Under this Heap we faw a Circle of Two Feet 
Diameter, equal in Height with the natural Surface 
of the Country, and caufwayed with fmall Stones 
laid edgeways, their fharpeft Point downward j which 
Stones being taken up, we obferved a cylindrical Pit 
at C Z), Two Feet broad, and Two Feet and half deep, 
cut out of the natural Soil, as the former 5 the Sides 
of the Pit were carefully lined round with tliefe flat 
Stones, though none at the Bottom. We met with, 
firfl, fome fmall Stones of various Shapes and Sizes, 
lying irregularly 5 under them appeared a black 
greafy Matter, but not above an Inch thick; fome of 
the adventitious Earth had crept through the Crevices 
of the caufwayed Stones into the Pit. It deferves our 
ferious Obfervation, that the Stones (which com- 
pofed the Heap lying over the cylindrical Pit) were 
brought from Places both high and low fituated, and 
many Miles diftant from one another, as the Tar-, 
Bolmcor-Clif \ Hainsbarrow , Bentuan , and Carnclays , 
a high Hill, the Diftance between fome of thefe being 
Four or Five Miles. 
Barrow, N° iv. 
Though we had hitherto found no Urn, yet being 
perfuaded by the unfluous black Earth, and the cylin- 
drical Pits, in the Centre of every one of the Bar- 
rows , the artful Pofition of the Stones to cover and 
guard them, and the foreign Earth, that thefe Bar- 
rows were erefted for Sepulchres ; we rcfolved to 
proceed farther, and pitched upon N° iv. as one forne- 
what different from the refl, both as its Situation 
feerned to regard a greater Number of Barrows, and 
as 
