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Rh 7. Have any through, or between, them a hole sufficiently large to admit the passage of a child or adult—Have they been fashioned into any regular form—Have they any kind of sculpture, and have the horizontal stones any natural or artificial channels on them.

8. Have any excavations been made near them, and have they any appearance of having been formerly included within the centre of tumuli formed of small stones or earth—And what has been found near them?

9. Are any of these monuments on or near the bounds of the parish, or other ancient geographical division?

10. Are there any isolated or grouped conical or other shaped earthen mounds formed by man, not being parts of medieval fortifications—and were they, apparently, for military or sepulchral purposes; or as places of refuge for the inhabitants of a district subject to inundation—Have they ever been dug into—What was found in them—And what was the construction of any masonry they may have exhibited?

11. Are there any artificial or natural caverns apparently employed either as sepulchres or as granaries, or hiding-places?

12. Are there any trees, wells, or springs which are of superstitious interest—And at what distance are they from the present Church?

13. Is there any ancient trackway or road in the parish—what are its materials, construction and direction, whether winding on the sides of hills or nearly in a straight line?

14. Have any bones of man been found, and to what compass-point was the upper part of the skull directed? or the bones of inferior animals, or any wedge or hatchet-like objects of stone or metal—any shields, spears, swords, or other weapons—arrow-heads or knives of bone and flint—pottery, bone-pins, rings, beads, bracelets, collars, coins, been discovered under or near any such monuments as above designated, or in other localities?

1 . Is there in your parish any kind of road said to have been formed by the Romans or their immediate successors, or any traces of such—And what are the materials and mode of its construction?

2. What name and history do the peasantry attach to it?

3. What is its general direction by compass—And what are the names of those parts of the parish, whether hamlets, farms, or fields, which it traverses?

4. Have any ancient sculptured stones, or the foundations of any edifice been discovered near it?

5. Are there any regular elevations of earth, or enclosures called ancient camps, and does any ancient road or causeway terminate at such enclosures?

6. Is there any spot traditionally said to be a battle-field—and have any intrenchments, bones, warlike instruments, &.c. supporting such tradition, been found thereon or about?

7. Have any fragments of urns of glass or pottery,—any lamps, coins,