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| Stone Cysts and Urns found here (continued) | [continued from page 25] Crop than the rest was induced a few years ago to examine the cause, and had not gone above two feet deep till he came to a Stone Coffin in each of the hillocks. Each Coffin was about four feet long two broad and two deep, containing an Urn of baked red clay Standing at the head or west end containing only a little black earth. Two of the Coffins contained nothing else, but the third besides the urn contained a complete human Skeleton with the leg thigh and arm bones all parallel to the Spine, the knees having been folded up to the breast on account of the shortness of the Coffin. Now as we all know that all the heathen nations of Europe, the Greeks, Romans and Celts burned their dead reserving their ashes in an Urn placed in the Sepulchre, but when converted to Christianity they abhorred the practice and interred the body entire, - is it not probable that this had been the Skeleton of a Christian deposited in the grave and Coffin of a heathen ancestor." (New Stat Act [Statistical Account] P [Page] 38.39) The Site marked is Supposed to be the place mentioned in Statistical account, the three hillocks have partly disappeared, but the Site marked is prominent, and the earth very loose as though it had been dug to a great depth having a different appearance to the Surrounding Soil. Mr Murray who pointed out the Site considers it to be correct. B. Render Corpl. R.E. [Corporal Royal Engineers] 10/7/63 |
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