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"to exprefs in the figures, excepting the two capital 
ones, marked a , a , which were walled up, and co- 
vered from head to foot, in the form of a long cheft, 
with a done cover over each. 
Upon removing the rubbifh, many bones, fuch as 
jaw-bones, teeth, and the like, were found unde- 
cayed j but none at all of the larger bones of the 
body, that I could learn. The heap of ftones, that 
covered them, was 32 yards in diameter, and about 
five feet high ; and the ftones, of which the coffins, 
or tombs, were compofed, appear, very plainly, to 
have been taken from a ftone quarry, above a quarter 
of a mile diftant. In the drawing, you fee a part of 
the circle is vacant ; but it is probable it was not fo, 
as there were found feveral bones and teeth in that 
fpace ; the caufe might be, that as part lay next the 
road, it might have met with an accidental di- 
fturbance; or, what is yet more likely, the people 
that came to lead the ftone away, beginning on that 
fide of it, deftroyed that part, before they were aware 
that it was any-ways remarkable, or worthy note. 
There is one circumftance, that feems to denote 
the monument to have been rather modern ; which 
is this. It appears, from the beft obfervations I could 
make, that the wall, marked d , was eredted before 
the monument was made, as I think it hardly pro- 
bable, that the perfons, who built it, would be at the 
trouble to remove that part of the circle, that was 
without, for the fake of building a field-wall, entirely 
level ; which is the cafe, for all that portion of the 
circle, from the infide of the wall, was as level as 
any other part of the field: and as walls, I appre- 
hend, are not of very antient date here, (if the above 
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