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are decorated witli lines, or combinations of lines and dots, and in 

 the majority of cases the edge of the vessel is turned over so as to 

 form a rim, the bottom being rounded or convex. Of the antiquity 

 01 this pottery the author is not prepared to give an estimate, 

 although there is little doubt that the manufacturers of it were the 

 C'ahokia Indians, who were dwellers on the creek until a com- 

 paratively recent period. 



The discovery of two " craunoges " in the lake of Ballyhoe, 

 Co. Monaghan, is described by Mr. G. Morant in the ' Proceedings 

 of the Kilkenny Archfeological f!^ociety ' for January, 1867. The 

 drainage of the Glyde river, which runs through the lake, has 

 permanently reduced the level of the water by several feet, leaving 

 exposed upon the shore flint-flakes, knives, scrapers, celts, and 

 arrow and spear heads. Ashes were generally found near the flint 

 implements; and, in one instance, a dark-coloured glass bead, and 

 in another, a leaden bullet were discovered associated with flint- 

 flakes. The greater part of the implements were mcluded in the 

 peat, but some were found lying on its surface, and others on its 

 rocky subsoil. On the great "crannoge" was a mound principally 

 composed of ashes, containing sharpening stones, implements of iron, 

 and leaden bullets ; on its shore, a bronze pin, and a flint spear-head 

 were found, and from the edge of the lake, close by, were obtained 

 flint arrow-heads, hatchets, &c. Some of the flint implements 

 were highly finished, but others were as rude as those of the Amiens 

 pattern ; and Mr. Morant argues from the intermixture of these two 

 types with instruments of bronze and iron, that most of them were 

 used at one and the same time by the same race of men, — the ruder 

 weapons being the implements of the common people, while the 

 more highly-finished arrow-heads and bronze pins were the weapons 

 and ornaments which adorned the persons of the chiefs. The occur- 

 rence of leaden buUets certainly points to the comparatively recent 

 occupation of the " crannoge," but archaeologists will require a 

 much more careful examination of this lake-island before they will 

 feel convinced that the generally accepted and well-defined ages of 

 stone, bronze, and iron, are confusedly mixed together in the 

 manner described by the author. 



Colonel A. Lane Fox has published a very interesting descrip- 

 tion of '"Eoovesmore Fort, and Stones inscribed with Oghams, in the 

 parish of Aglish, County Cork." This fort, or " Eath," is in 

 the form of an irregular circle, about 130 feet in diameter, mea- 

 sured from the crest of the innermost parapet; beyond this is a 

 ditch about 17 feet in breadth, and beyond the ditch another para- 

 pet of 10 feet base and 3 feet high, the ditch being between the tvro 

 parapets. This structure was probably a fort, as it is well situated 

 for defence, on the top of a gentle rise, and is nowhere commanded 

 fi'om the outside. 



