AN ANCIENT GRAVE IN STILLMAN STREET, PLYMOUTH. 501 
feet wide and three feet in length. This had been excavated in the 
native rock, which was here soft and shaly, similar to that which 
appears in so many of our drainage excavations. Unfortunately, no 
one was on the spot to record what I have since learnt from the 
workmen employed ; and soon the grave was cleared out, the urn 
destroyed, and the débris carted away to some ballast heap, whence 
it has been taken on board ship and lost. When I first saw the 
grave it had been completely emptied, and on the west side a flat 
stone to support the iron pillar had been inserted, thus destroying 
all evidence of what that side had originally been, although I was 
informed that it consisted of the native rock. The grave lay 
nearly north and south. The east and south ends had been built 

up of small slabs of dunstone, and were quite perpendicular, whilst 
the north end consisted of the native rock, sloping away at a con- 
siderable angle, and exceedingly decayed and shattered. It is not 
improbable that the north and west sides were originally as perpen- 
dicular as the rotten rock would admit of, but that in excavating 
the soil the labourers had removed all the loose stuff, which was 
carted away with the rest, leaving the rock at the angle at which it 
had most readily broken. From the few fragments of the urn 
which I was able to preserve the drawing of the restored figure has 
been prepared. This may not be absolutely correct ; but at all events 
it will enable us to form some idea of what this interesting urn was 
like, wherein were placed the ashes of the cremated body of on 
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