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SOME RHONDDA CAIRNS. By REV. JOHN GRIFFITH, OF NANTYMOEL. Author of Edward II. in Glamorgan." The following remarks are intended to serve as explanations of the accompanying illustrations, rather than as a full report of last year's field work done by Members of the Rhondda Naturalists' Society. It is, however, of importance to note the position of a group of cairns which, as far as my information extends, have not been marked, either singly or collectively, on any map. They are five in number, erected on the flat of the mountain ridge which divides the Rhondda from the Ogmore Valley. It would be convenient to note them as the Mynydd y Ton Cairns, though the Ogmore side of the mountain flat is called also Mynydd William Meyrick. The latter name may be that of an Abbot of Margam. At any rate the following facts are worth noting. If the reader will look at Sheet 248 of the Geological Survey Map (Pontypridd), and note the position of the letter k" in the name Meyrick, he would find in a bog near a pool at that spot a rather ancient-looking boundary stone, showing about a foot square above ground, with the name Margam inscribed on it. I mentioned this to Major Gray, of Port Talbot, who kindly supplied me with the name of the Margam Abbot. It is further worthy of note that certain charters give to the Monks of Margam certain rights to land on the south-west side of the Rhondda Valley. On the map-sheet mentioned a pyramidal mark stands for a round tower, some three feet high, erected by surveyors, and