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 Porth Dafarcli, Holyhead Islaii.l. TliP place wlicru tliu Urns were found, v The Grave. ACCOUNT OF SEPULCHRAL DEPOSIT, WITH CINERARY URNS, FOUND AT PORTH DAFARCH, IN HOLYHEAD ISLAND.i COMMUNICATED BY THE HON. WILLIAM OWEN STANLEY. WITH NOTICES OF ANCIENT INTERMENTS DISCOVERED IN ANGLESEA AND NORTH WALES. It is remarkable that few particulars have been recorded with precision, by antiquarian writers, regarding interments of the earlier ages discovered in North Wales. The general practice of burial under the heap of stones or mound of earth, the cairn or the barrow, appears, indeed, to have prevailed. The nature of the rude sepulchral structure must obviously, in every age, have been slightly modified in accordance with the character of the surface, or the soil : wherever this was freely strewed with fragments of stone, the carnedd would be formed ; ^ whilst, in low positions, the ' These' interesting urns and remains, of especial value for comparison with dis- coveries in Wihsliire and other parts of England, wore exhibited in the museum formed during the late Meeting of the Institute at Sahshury. - See accounts of sepulchral carncdds, in Anglesea, in which interments wore found. Rowlands' Mona,p.2ir) ; Pennant's Wales, vol. ii., pp. '2,5f» — '2('2 ; Archaco. Camlt., vol. ii,, ]>. :'.. Sir R. C. Iloaro adverts to the frequent occurrence of cairns or carnedds in Wales, especially on the summits of hills : they have fi'e- quently proved to be sepulchral, but, as he remarks, were occasionally raised for other purposes. Ancient Wilts, vol. ii., p. ?>. Some interesting notices of sepul- chral anti(iuities and usages in Wales, may be found in the Cambrian Register, lWi, p. ;{!)2. See also Fenton's Pem- brokeshire, ])p. 2:57, 34.0, 476, .'■)7f), &c.