The floor of the larger chamber is perfectly level; that of the smaller one, to the extent of 65 centimetres, sloping downwards, apparently in consequence of the natural inclination of the ground. When the discovery was first made, the souterrain was not found in as good a state of preservation as that of Keredan. The smaller chamber was, however, intact. The vaulted roofs of the other chamber and gallery had given way at some unknown period; but the springs of the vaults remained so far perfect as to enable one to determine the original height. Subsequently to the destruction of these vaults, the interior spaces had become filled up with materials of different characters. In the gallery were found stone implements, a so-called whorl of baked clay, fragments of pottery of all kinds, and little Gallo-Roman figures. In the larger chamber was a layer of fine black soil, 20 centimetres thick, and greasy to the touch. In the layer were discovered fragments of charcoal, two stone hatchets, two polishing or sharpening stones, three whorls of baked clay, and a large quantity of well made pottery marked with an ornamentation of genuine Gaulish character as it seems to me. Above this layer of black earth was ordinary earth mixed with stones. The small chamber was full of fine, black soil, without pebbles or other stones, but containing a tolerable quantity of charcoal and fragments of Gaulish pottery, principally in its lower part, where also were noticed burnt stones. The couloir, however, was the richest in remains of all kinds. Here were found an almost perfect vase of coarse clay, a large piece of baked clay, several stones hollowed out, doubtlessly intended for crushing grain; a flint knife; five stone hatchets, some broken, others perfect; stone hammers; large polishing or sharpening stones; several whorls of burnt clay, and large quantities of charcoal and broken pottery. In the presence of this remarkable monument, and the numerous and varied objects it contained, I confess I was much at a loss in determining its character. Was it a tomb, a dwelling, or storehouse for grain, like the silos of Algeria. To these questions I could find no satisfactory answer. It presented a remarkable analogy with the ancient caves and "weems" of Scotland and Ireland. It did not seem too hazardous to suggest that it might, at some very remote period, have served as a human habitation. No traces of bones, burnt or unburnt, nor any object in metal, had yet been found. All its contents were most carefully examined, and further research was at last given up, when, by means of pick and spade, it was ascertained that the natural ground had been reached. The workmen were accordingly directed to continue their researches in another part of the field. Three weeks after this abandonment of the souterrain, M. Grenot, who continued to superintend the operations of the labourers, was driven by a biting east wind to seek shelter in the larger chamber. There, more to pass away the time than from any thought of making further discoveries in ground so closely examined, he was amusing himself with a small pick in removing a layer of yellow, stony soil, which appeared to be natural ground, when he came on fragments of charcoal and burnt bones; and soon after, two greenish little projections, denoting the presence of some bronze implement or implements. He at once stopped his examination, and sent a messenger for me, thus showing his prudence and sagacity, for under such circumstances two heads are certainly better than one. On my arrival we commenced with the greatest care and order to extract the buried objects, and the following is the result of our labour. In the eastern part of the large chamber, at P, we found a hollow ten or twelve centimetres deep, and seventy long, and fifty broad, which contained a layer of charcoal of small wood about three centimetres thick, on which lay the following articles placed in regular order: 1. An iron instrument of the form of a piercer (plate 11), set in a bone handle. The blade was about four 3RD SER., VOL. XIV. 20 centimetres long, and of rectangular form. The bone handle, which had been much burnt, and so oxydised as to easily flake off, was of a round form, its length being eight centimetres and a half. The end nearest the blade was ornamented by two rows of lines joined by short, oblique ones; while about three centimetres from the lower extremity is a little circle with a central dot, exactly similar to those which occur on the little figure and pottery to be presently noticed. 2. A piece of hollow iron (plate 11, fig. 3) of conical form, three centimetres long, which appears to have been the sheath of the piercer. 3. A blade of iron, seven centimetres long by two and a half broad, and probably a knife. 4. Four bronze rings, of which two are three centimetres in diameter, and the others half a centimetre less. If fastened together by a cord, they might have served as a bracelet. 5. A flat bronze object, six by two centimetres in dimensions, but which has suffered so much from rust as to have lost its original form. 6. A necklace of twenty small sheep-bones (plate 111) pierced in the centre for suspension, and very much burnt. In addition were pendants of larger and flatter bones, and pierced near the edges, and not in the centre. 7. A piece of flat bone, two centimetres long, and perhaps part of the necklace. 8. A bone ring, very thin and well wrought, about two centimetres in diameter (fig. 1), and found close to the bone necklace. 9. A round piece of bone, six centimetres long, and which may have served as a handle to some implement. 10. The extremity of a cow's horn sharpened to a fine point, and probably used as some kind of piercer. These C Fig. 1. four last objects were burnt like the necklace-bones. 11. Four sharpening stones, the smallest of which was seven centimetres, and the largest fourteen and a |