and in the Ground adjoining. 



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six portions of antlers of red deer ; three of these were shed horns, 

 two of the others may have been used for implements— the bases 

 having been rounded as if by use. Nothing else was found at this 



spot. 



The selection of the spot for the more southerly opening was 

 suggested by a depression which reaches nearly one third way 

 up°the hill, and would seem to have been caused by some dis- 

 turbance at the foot. A digging here showed that a distinct 

 semicircular space about ten feet in radius, had, at some period 

 since the formation of the hill, been hollowed out. The surface 

 was irregular, and on a ledge about eighteen inches higher 

 than the rest, three feet square, and four feet within the hill, 

 there was a deposit of wood ashes, in the middle of which, and 

 lying side by side, were the blade of an iron clasp knife much 



Blade of an Iron Qasp Knife. (Actual Size.) 



Whetstone. (Actual Size.) 



corroded, but still retaining the rivet, and a small whetstone of a 

 fine micaceous grit, having a hole, countersunk on both sides at 

 the smaller end. 



Neither of these openings revealed the original surface, which 

 would appear to have been pared and carried away in the construc- 

 tion of the hill. This conjecture is supported by the circumstance 

 that when the Archaeological Institute penetrated by means of a 

 tunnel to the centre of the hill, in 1849, it was seen that the 

 nucleus of the mound consisted of regular layers of turf and rubble 

 taken from the surrounding ground. The curve of the strata 

 there plainly showed the commencement of the accumulation. 



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