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Some of the most remarkable remains found in this in- 
closure were those of a very large and powerful dog, appa- 
rently belonging to an animal of the grey-hound tribe, but of 
enormous size—the heads measuring, in the dry bone, nearly 
eleven inches in length, and principally characterized by the 
great extent and magnitude of the occipital crest, and the 
projecting muzzle. Mr. Wilde stated it as his opinion, that 
we had now, for the first time, an opportunity of judging of 
the form and characters of the dogs denominated Irish 
wolf dogs, to which breed he considered these heads to have 
belonged. There were also several foxes, but no wolves. 
With these remains were mixed up the shells of limpids and 
buccinums; and a few bones of birds; some portions of 
burned bones, and large quantities of hazel nuts. Most of 
the bones of the larger ruminants were unbroken ; and up- 
wards of 150 cart-loads of bones have been already dug out 
of this inclosure, and have been forwarded to Scotland for 
manure, none of them being in a fossil state. 
Nearly in the centre of the heap, and within two feet of 
the surface, were discovered two human skeletons, lying at 
length, and without any surrounding wood or stone work, &c. 
The superstitions of the people who were employed in making 
the excavation, led them to re-deposit ‘them in the neigh- 
bourhood, and they cannot now be obtained ; but Mr. Wilde 
produced some of the vertebre, and the frontal bone of one of 
these bodies, and remarked upon the similarity of the latter 
to other heads found in ancient Irish monuments, and in par- 
ticular its striking analogy to those found in the Cromleigh 
recently opened in the Pheenix-park. 
The antiquities found in this place may be divided into 
the warlike, the culinary, and the ornamental. They con- 
sisted of zon swords of different lengths, with straight edges 
and angular points, and bearing a resemblance to the ancient 
Roman swords. Very many knives were found, of different 
shapes and sizes, with iron spear, javelin, and dagger blades, 
