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it is constructed on oak piles (many of them showing the action 
of fire), driven into the soft marl, at regular distances, and 
tied together by horizontal oak stretchers, so as to form a triple 
stockade round it, with an interval of about five feet between’ 
each stockade. Outside of this, to the north-westward, are 
a number of irregularly placed piles, stretching a short dis- 
tance from the islet, and it was adjoining to them the great 
deposit of bones was found. The centre of these stockades was 
laid with trunks of smallish oak trees, placed flat on the marl, 
and all pointing to a common centre, thus forming a platform 
whereon the island itself was constructed. When it was first 
observed, there was, jutting out from the island to the lake, 
towards the west, a kind of jetty or pier, formed of a double 
row of piles and stretchers running parallel, about eight feet 
asunder, and on which logs of timber were closely laid hori- 
zontally. 
*“‘Ofthis gangway, and of the stockades, there are now but 
very imperfect remains, so much has been broken up and re- 
moved by the peasantry. 
‘* The deposit of bones, &c., close to this island, consisted 
of bones of cattle, deer, horses, swine, sheep, fowl, dogs, deer, 
both fallow and red, a few specimens (in general much broken) 
of the horns of the Irish elk, and one or two specimens of hu- 
man remains, and amongst them a quantity of articles of a most 
miscellaneous description, some of apparently very great anti- 
quity, and others of a much more recent date. Amongst these 
are spear-heads, bronze pins, some of exquisite workmanship, 
and scarcely any two of exactly the same form. A brass bowl, 
hammered out of the solid; two brass vessels, made of small 
pieces, most curiously rivetted together; a brooch of hand- 
some workmanship ; a variety of bone pins and implements ; 
deer horn-combs, of very great artistic merit; horn discs, 
like backgammon men; knives, hooks, and-hatchets of iron; 
swords and spear-heads ; an iron implement, like what a baker 
uses for putting his loaves in the oven, made of sheet iron, cu- 
