The chambered tumuli at Dowth, on the Boyne, and Loughcrew, near Oldcastle, Co. Meath, resemble the Newgrange tumulus in plan and construction, but the sculptures upon the stones of the chambers and passages are not so obviously of Bronze Age type as those at Newgrange. The designs seem to be more symbolical than ornamental, and from the frequent occurrence of star- and wheel-shaped designs may have to do with sun-worship. The Loughcrew tumuli and their sculptures have been very fully described by Mr. E. A. Conwell, in the _Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy_ (vol. ix., p. 355; and 2nd ser., vol. ii., p. 72); by Mr. George Coffey, in the _Transactions_ of the same society (vol. xxxi., p. 23); and by Dr. W. Frazer, in the _Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland_ (vol. xxvi., p. 294). A certain proportion of the sepulchral cists of the Bronze Age in Great Britain exhibit symbolical or decorative designs. The following is a list of the examples which have been recorded:— ROSS-SHIRE. Bakerhill. ARGYLLSHIRE. Kilmartin. Carnbân. CLACKMANNAN. Tillycoultry. LINLITHGOWSHIRE. Caerlowrie. Craigie Wood. LANARKSHIRE. Carnwath. AYRSHIRE. Coilsfield. CUMBERLAND. Aspatria. Redlands, near Penrith. NORTHUMBERLAND. Ford West Field. YORKSHIRE. Bernaldby Moor. CO. TYRONE. Seskin. The sculpture is usually on the cover-stone of the cist, but in the case of the examples at Kilmartin and at Carnbân it is on the vertical end slabs. The sculptured designs consist of cups and rings, concentric circles, lozenges, triangles, axe-heads, curved meandering lines, and a few patterns composed of straight lines. The carvings show the same pick-marks that were observed at Newgrange. The axe-heads on the end slab of the cist at Kilmartin[81] are of the wedge shape common in the early Bronze Age. Like the stone axes and axe-heads sculptured on the dolmens of Brittany, they probably have a symbolical meaning connected with the worship of some axe-bearing deity such as Zeus. [81] _Jour. Brit. Archæol. Assoc._, vol. 36, p. 146. The designs, composed of triangles alternately covered with dots and left plain, which occur on the cist-cover from Carnwath,[82] we have already seen sculptured at Newgrange and engraved on bronze axes and jet necklaces. The grouped circles on the cist-cover from Craigie Wood[83] may also be compared with those on the slabs in the Newgrange tumulus, on the stone ball from Towie in the Edinburgh Museum, and on the chalk drums from Folkton in the British Museum. [82] _Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot._, vol. x., p. 62. [83] _Ibid._, vol. vi., _Appendix_, p. 28. In three cases (viz. at Coilsfield,[84] Carnwath, and Tillycoultry)[85] elaborately ornamented urns of the food-vessel type have been found in the sculptured cists, thus clearly proving the period to which the cists belong.