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formed. In the centre of this pit, and only a few yards from the place 

 where the bones have been found so plentifully, a very large quantity of 

 flint scrapers, several arrowheads, knives, hammer-stones, and cores 

 were obtained, all mixed up with an immense quantity of flint flakes and 

 chips. 



OastlerocJc. — The Bann separates this place from Portstewart. Sand- 

 hills containing similar implements are found here. On a recent visit of 

 the Ballymena Naturalists' Field Club, accompanied by the Rev. Dr. 

 Grainger, M.R.I.A., Vice-President, and also a member of this Committee, 

 as many as 200 flint implements of various kinds were obtained, but the 

 layer where experimented on yielded rather poor results. 



Whitepark Say, Ballintoy. — There are sandhills at this place some- 

 what similar to those at Portstewart, and there is also the dark-coloured 

 implement-bearing layer, but the portion richest in remains lies along the 

 top of a bank quite close to the sea and about 30 feet above sea level. The 

 sand has been removed from above the layer on the top of this bank for 

 about a quarter of a mile in length by a few yards in breadth, leaving 

 the comparatively solid floor of blackish matter undisturbed in many 

 spots. About 30 square yards of the richest part of this floor was dug 

 over, and it yielded a great quantity of flakes, fifty-three scrapers, two 

 large triangular-shaped flints, one of which is dressed at the pointed 

 end after the manner of a scraper, a bored stone or whorl, the thick end 

 of an antler of a red deer, having a hole bored through near its base, the 

 half of an oval tool-stone, cores, several hammer-stones, one showing 

 work on the sides as well as at the ends, a bone pin, a bone needle, several 

 pieces of pottery, showing handsome ornamentation, an ochreous stone, 

 which has been much rubbed and scraped, and a small portion of a 

 similar stone. There were also a few shells and a great quantity of teeth 

 and bones mixed up with the implements. The long bones were all 

 broken and split. The bones and teeth corresponded very closely with 

 those previously found lying exposed on the surface, and which Professor 

 A. Leith Adams found to contain those of man, horse, ox, wolf or dog, 

 fox, deer, and hog. 



The hole in the antler is oval, and gets narrower towards the centre, 

 like the holes in many stone hammers. At the surface it is \\ inches in 

 diameter longitudinally and 1^ inches across. In the centre of the hole 

 the diameters are nearly 1 inch and | inch respectively. 



The hole in the whorl is comparatively wide at both surfaces of the 

 stone, about ^ inches in diameter, and gets narrower towards the centre. 

 The outer and wider portions have a battered appearance, as if those 

 parts had been formed by hammering, but the central portion has a 

 ringed appearance, some parts being wider than others. This central 

 part may have been bored by means of a rotating stick and sharp sand 

 and water. The wider portions would be formed when the end of the 

 stick had become slightly broader by wear, and the narrower portions at 

 the times when it was newly trimmed. 



JDundrum, County Down. — There are extensive sandhills at this place, 

 which were lately examined by the secretary of this committee. Fre- 

 quent visits have been made to this place by the Belfast Naturalists' Field 

 Club and by Mr. Gray, who is president of the society for the present 

 year, and it has been described as one of several places where flint flakes 

 and scrapers are to be found. It was not, therefore, expected that any 

 quantity of remains would be obtained, and the chief object in going 



