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riously rivetted together, and having in the‘centre a circular 
ornament, with a cross in it, that has evidently once had an 
arabesque pattern on it; sundry miniature frymg-pans, and a 
small whetstone; single and double bronze rings; one coin of 
the Emperor Hadrian ; one bulla, Pope Paul V.; sundry silver 
coins, most of them Edwards, and one so late as James, 1690, 
and one silver coin, unfigured in any collection that I have seen. 
‘‘ Between the island and the ruined church were found 
two canoes, hollowed out of single oak trees, but neither of 
them much more than two feet wide; the stern of one of them 
was perforated with numerous auger holes, about one inch 
each in diameter. 
«Qn examining the structure of the island itself, which 
was effected by cutting a trench 20 feet long by 5 wide, as 
near the centre as possible, there was found, at about eight 
inches under the surface, which was covered with rank grass 
growing in a rich mould, a very close-laid pavement of irre- 
gular-sized boulder’stones. When this was removed, a stratum 
of black earth was exposed, with occasional fragments of bones - 
through it of swine, fowl, sheep, cattle, and deer; and about 
six inches beneath this, a considerable layer of burned earth, 
with several inches of unburned clay under it. ‘Then came a 
second very closely-laid pavement of large-sized, flat-surfaced 
stones, beneath which were alternate layers of black earth and 
burned clay and marl, reaching down to the log platform, and 
interspersed, like the one above it, with occasional bones and 
fragments of bones ; some few human remains, viz., one skull, 
and portions of some more were got on the exterior edge. No 
coffin-stone, chest, or other sepulchral remains. 
«¢ Amongst the bones found were some heads of oxen of the 
purest short-horn breed, precisely similar to those found at 
Dunshaughlin. : 
‘* The only structures of this description brought under pub- 
lic notice previously have been the stockade at Dunshaughlin, 
mentioned by Dr. Wilde, and one at Lough Fea in the County 
