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found, and more rarely, small portions which seem to have had their 

 bony structure replaced by gradual infiltration of carbonate of lime. 



All the small stones found bore evidence of contact with fire. It 

 would be difficult to get one entire; they are mostly fractured, 

 and in some cases altered in colour by heat. 



An early mode of cooking was to surround the meat with hot 

 pebbles, and this may account for so many burnt stones. Xothing 

 in the shape of stone implements was obtained, but almost all the 

 mounds contained chipped fragments of a crystalline limestone found 

 in situ near Carrigart. 



The above general description applies to the following shell 

 mounds, as far as I have examined them, in county Donegal. 



In Fannett. 



At Cooladerry, - 1 



At Portacharnan, ------ 2 



At Ballyhernan, - 1 



At the Old Town of Ballywhorisky, - - 4 



At Port-na-luing, 2 



In Kossgull. 



Xear Carrigart, ------ 2 



Xear Larginreagh, 2 



At Dundoan, ...... 2 



At Melmore, ------ 3 



In Doagh. 

 On Dunfanaghy strand, in an island surrounded by 



water only at spring tides, - - - - 3 



In Innisbofin island, - - - - 5 or 6 



(but all at the sandy end of the island called " The 



Toberglassan.") 



So much for the Donegal Shell Mounds. One other to which I 

 would call your attention is situated about half-a-mile from Ballintoy, 

 in county Antrim. It, too, is only a- few yards above high- water 

 mark, it is also on a sandy shore, and the shell and bone remains 

 are very similar to those already described, only that there are 

 more examples of the bones of the deer to be met with. Over and 

 above these remains, however, there are also, in exceeding plenty, 

 flint flakes and pottery. The former are so numerous as to suggest 

 that this was a flint implement factory. I have found here nothing 

 more finished than some flint scrapers, used, I believe, for preparing 



