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CHAPTEE IX.
NOTES ON THE TOMBS.
The chief places where there are remains of tombs are: —
(") On the high ground south of the settlement, mostly along the
sidcs of a small glen.
(b) Between the west end of the Great Wall and bhe first little covc
among the cliffs.
(c) On the ridge between the latter place and the next inlet to the
west.
(d) On the west side of the Bathing Creek.
(c) On the east side of the Bathing Creek.
South of the road which passes by region (d) is a comparatively Hat
field in which I have noticed one or two tombs, and there may perhaps be
some unopened ones here. Vases have been found in the cultivated land
imraediately south of the settlement, but these may have come from houses
lying outside the fortress.
(a) The tombs examined in this region were of two main types. The
simpler sort consisted of rather irregulär pits, sometimes semicircular, sunk
close beneath a shelf of rock : as the rock has probably been much worn away,
it was difficult to make out their exact shape. Mr. Hogarth opened several
of these in 1899, but all except one had been already plundered. This one
contained the kernos (PI. VIII, 15), a large piain vase (Fig. 76, p. 98), a
geometrie beaked jug, and a good many hemispherical, flat-bottomed bowls
stuck one inside another. The other sort was the chamber-tomb, several of
which we mcasured (see below). This type consisted of an Underground
rectangular Chamber cut out of the soft rock. It had a rectangular doorway
approached by a short dromos (not covered over), which sometimes had a
downward slope and sometimes a step. As most of these tombs lay on the
west slope of the glen, the entrance was naturally from the east: all over the
cemetery in fact the orientation of the tombs dependcd wholly on the con-
formation of the ground. The pottery which I picked up in the neighbour-
hood of these chamber-tombs belonged for the most part to what we have
called the geometrie style, c.g. fragments of beaked jugs and a great many
NOTES ON THE TOMBS.
The chief places where there are remains of tombs are: —
(") On the high ground south of the settlement, mostly along the
sidcs of a small glen.
(b) Between the west end of the Great Wall and bhe first little covc
among the cliffs.
(c) On the ridge between the latter place and the next inlet to the
west.
(d) On the west side of the Bathing Creek.
(c) On the east side of the Bathing Creek.
South of the road which passes by region (d) is a comparatively Hat
field in which I have noticed one or two tombs, and there may perhaps be
some unopened ones here. Vases have been found in the cultivated land
imraediately south of the settlement, but these may have come from houses
lying outside the fortress.
(a) The tombs examined in this region were of two main types. The
simpler sort consisted of rather irregulär pits, sometimes semicircular, sunk
close beneath a shelf of rock : as the rock has probably been much worn away,
it was difficult to make out their exact shape. Mr. Hogarth opened several
of these in 1899, but all except one had been already plundered. This one
contained the kernos (PI. VIII, 15), a large piain vase (Fig. 76, p. 98), a
geometrie beaked jug, and a good many hemispherical, flat-bottomed bowls
stuck one inside another. The other sort was the chamber-tomb, several of
which we mcasured (see below). This type consisted of an Underground
rectangular Chamber cut out of the soft rock. It had a rectangular doorway
approached by a short dromos (not covered over), which sometimes had a
downward slope and sometimes a step. As most of these tombs lay on the
west slope of the glen, the entrance was naturally from the east: all over the
cemetery in fact the orientation of the tombs dependcd wholly on the con-
formation of the ground. The pottery which I picked up in the neighbour-
hood of these chamber-tombs belonged for the most part to what we have
called the geometrie style, c.g. fragments of beaked jugs and a great many