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with Cruciform Monoliths , Sfc. 
I cannot say which is the front or back, as each cross is placed differently 
with regard to its neighbouring tombs. Some of the kists face the rising 
sun, others are at an angle with this position, or in other words, the entrances 
are always easterly though at varying degrees to the south or north of this.* 
The distinguishing points in these monuments are the various breadth 
and length of the limbs, and the curved junction between the arms and 
lower limb.f The broken cross in the middle ground has been dug down to 
in order to expose the foot; its measurements are :—whole height, 13 feet; 
height to arm, 9' 4 7 ; width of lower limb, 3' 2" ; length of unbroken arm 
from centre, 3' 8 7 ; width of arm at end, 2' 5" ; width of upper limb, 2' l 7 ; 
thickness of monolith, T 8 7 . The neighbouring cross is smaller, but it 
stands 5' 6 7 over the ground, and from the proportions of the others its 
lower limb must be sunk in the ground for about G feet. 
These monoliths are neatly dressed, without any ornamentation or 
inscription, and present a rather less weathered appearance than the kists, 
which were apparently only roughly squared and then hammered or chisel¬ 
led on certain surfaces, though the style of tooling is the same in all cases. 
Each tomb consists of four upright tooled slabs placed rectangularly, 
covered by another flat slab dressed at 'the edges, and the whole is generally 
encircled by a ring of rudely-dressed oblong stones meeting together at 
their ends, these being cut to give clean joints to the circle. The box 
or kist is built on the surface of the ground or, as it generally is, rock, 
there being no excavation or pit as is more frequently the case with the 
ruder Korumbar rings. One of the upright slabs is pierced for a small door¬ 
way large enough to admit a human body, and the sides of this entrance 
are cut or counter-sunk so as to allow of a slab or other closure being placed 
against the opening, though I did not see any loose slabs lying about which 
might have been used in this way. The covering slab overhangs the kist 
for more than a foot in width. (See Plate XII, figs. 3, 4, and 5.) 
Most of the tombs are more or less broken and tumbled about, while 
their interiors have in many cases been torn up ; but a few still show what 
the inner arrangements were like. There was or is a floor or basement slab, 
very often the size of the interior, in wdiich were cut out or carved one or 
more long and shallow cavities with rimmed edges suitable for the reception 
of a corpse. The largest tomb contains two of these receptacles with room 
for a third ; in another are three, one (ordinary size) on either side with a 
smaller hollow, possibly for a child, between ; while there is only one small 
cavity nearly three feet long on one side of the floor of a further tomb. 
* Possibly the fact of the entrance being- to the north or south-east may have had 
reference to the time of death of the first tenant, according- to the seasonal position of 
the sun. 
t See Plate XII, Figs. 1 and 2. 
