Account of Sepulchral Deposit, with Cinerary Urns, Found at Porth Dafarch, in Holyhead Island

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 ; 2 whilst, in low positions, the adverts to the frequent occurrence of cairns or carnedds in Wales, especially on the summits of hills : they have frequently proved to be sepulchral, but, as he remarks, were occasionally raised for other purposes.Ancient Wilts, vol.ii., p. 113.Some interesting notices of sepulchral antiquities and usages in Wales, may be found in the Cambrian Register, 1796, p. 382.See also Fenton's Pembrokeshire, pp.237, 349, 476, 579, &c. 1 These interesting urns and remains, of especial value for comparison with discoveries in Wiltshire and other parts of England, were exhibited in the museum formed during the late Meeting of the Institute at Salisbury.2 See accounts of sepulchral camcdds, in Anglesea, in which interments were found

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