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of Plymouth’s ancient forefathers. That it once contained ashes 
cannot I think be doubted. The portions of the bottom still pre- 
sent a white appearance, which probably arises from the contact of 
the ashes with the burnt clay. 1 may add, however, that no human 
bones were brought under my notice, so that if any were found, as 
has been stated, they have been carted away and lost. It is much 
to be regretted that further excavations could not be made, which 
might have led to further discoveries, and perhaps more careful 
observations than could now be recorded; but the nature of the 
new building would not admit of this. Much soil and soft 
rock were removed, but nothing of further interest was discovered, 
although I visited the spot several times daily. The urn itself, in 
its restored figure, presents a somewhat unusual form, and differs 
from that of most vessels found in kistvaens or barrows in its 
larger diameter at the mouth (13 inches) in proportion to its 
height ; it is also very thin. It was placed with the mouth upwards 
in the grave. <A fragment of an urn, nearly allied to this, except 
in its smaller size, was found by the Rev. Mr. Kirwan, in July, 
1868, in a large barrow on Broad Down, near Sidbury. A draw- 
ing of the fragments, as well as of the restored urn, are given in 
the J’ransactions of the Devonshire Association of this year, The 
barrow is No. 57 of Mr. Hutchinson’s list in the Report of the Bar- 
row Committee, edited by Mr. Worth. Mr. Kirwan’s urn was about 
half the size of the Stillman Street one. I am not aware that 
any grave similar to this has ever been recorded, and if not, this 
discovery may be considered as highly interesting. The Romano- 
British graves met with by Mr. Spence Bate on the hill near Fort 
Stamford were composed of slabs of stone, without roof cover, and 
contained many relics, but I think no cinerary urns, or other 
pottery, except what may be considered as food or water vessels. 
The barrows opened by Mr. Kirwan near Sidmouth rarely con- 
tained kistvaens, but the urns were usually enclosed with flint 
stones. The barrows opened and explored in Cornwall did not 
contain similar cists; and none opened elsewhere, as far as I am 
aware, contained cists with roof stones placed at right angles to 
each other as have been found in our Plymouth grave. The 
early Roman inhabitants of Britain, however, used tile graves, one 
of which, consisting of eight roof tiles, placed in a similar manner 
to the Plymouth one, and having a tile at each end like the stones 
at the end of ours, was discovered near York, and is figured in 
