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On the upper surface at one end is inscribed in very legible characters 'WillelMus. The cist of the princess his wife is 2 inches shorter and 1 inch deeper, and the word 'Gvndrada' is very distinctly inscribed on the cover. It is worth remarking that her father, the Conqueror, in his charter, calls for Gundfreda, and her husband, who survived her, calls her Gundreda in his charter.
In other words, the Inverness monuments are simply chamber-tombs covered with a cairn and surrounded by a circle. Around Aberdeen we find the third type of circle. It consists of a cist-tomb covered by a low mound, often with a retaining wall of small blocks, but there is no entrance passage leading into the cist.
At a distance of 60 feet from its circumference in a direction 35° east of south is a stone 4 feet high. In the centre of the circle was found a cist cut in the underlying rock containing bluish earth and pieces of bone. Above were an implement and some fragments of flint.
At the point marked > in the center of the site a burial cist was found and excavated in 1884 by Mr Thomas V. Keam. It contained the remains of a child, almost perfectly desiccated. It is said that when the remains were first removed the color of the iris could be distinguished. The specimen was subsequently deposited in the National Museum.
One such is illustrated by Chapin, who also shows a variety of the meander, treated, however, as a pictograph and without reference to its decorative value. Similar bands are shown also by Nordenskiöld, but always with three points, instead of four, which were done in red. These occur at the point marked 1 on the map, in connection with a small storage cist already described.
In the churchyard is a very fine yew tree, locally credited with an age of almost 1000 years. To the E. of the church rise the wooded sides of Dundon Beacon, a striking-looking hill with the summit encircled by a camp. A cist, containing a skeleton and some metal rings, is said to have been discovered here. Compton Martin, a village 3 m. E.S.E. of Blagdon.
But the new commander would not, any more than his predecessor, fall in with Halleck's schemes, and what Cist contemptuously describes as "Halleck's brilliant paper campaign into East Tennessee" did not take place. General Rosecrans took command of the army at Bowling Green, November 2, 1862.
This cist mode of burial is by no means uncommon in Tennessee, as they are frequently mentioned by writers on North American archaeology. The examples which follow are specially characteristic, some of them serving to add strength to the theory that mounds were for the most part used for secondary burial, although intrusions were doubtless common. Amer. Antiq.