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 EARLY MAN tiers, with the designs shown in the urn from Revidge, only with the triangular motive on the upper tier. There was found in this instance also an 'ornament of limestone, 4 in. long, convex in front, and flat at the back,' with the ends punctured — apparently an armlet. But all these yield in point of interest and detail of discovery to that found on the moors at Bleasdale, in the same district of north Lanca- shire. There the late Mr. Jackson recently discovered and explored a group of prehistoric remains, placed in a striking position on a knoll of boulders in the middle of an amphi- theatre of moorland hills, about 650 yards due west from Higher Fair- snape Farm. Of these he has handed down an exact and careful record,^ which Professor Boyd Dawkins has supplemented with some illuminatory notes. In the construction of the circles which enclosed some cinerary urns, wood was found in this case to have supplied the place of stone. There were two circles, one enclosed by and touching the other towards the east. The diameter of the smaller was 75 ft., and of the larger circle twice that 1 Lane, and Ches. Ant. Soc. xviii. 1900, pp. 1 14-124. Fig. 28. — Urn from Blackburn. ■-jiiiiiiiMrhTTrrrrrnf|nQjjiymiiurpTTTrn| ^ £ TMat Poafi eonfJnue j.« Kfiaiiin rtn Plan Plan of Sepulchral Remains. aa Shawn on Plan. <& Horizontal Scale about 34 feet = I inch. Vertical Scale about 34 feet = inch. oaken Principals and Secondaries of Outer Circle, Fig. 29. — Plan and Section of Timber Burial Circle, &c. at Bleasdale. From L. C. A. xviii. 243