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began late. It is admitted that the Iron Age comes in per sa/twm in Swiss lake 
dwellings, in Italy, in Greece, in France, and in Britain. Iron is found going with 
the Kelts into these various regions. 
Hallstatt, in Austria, is the only place in Europe where articles of iron are 
found gradually replacing those of the same kind made in bronze. It has not been 
hitherto pointed out that within avery short distance of the Hallstatt cemetery 
lies one of the most famous iron mines of antiquity. Strabo (v.i. 8) tells us 
of the ironworks of Noreia, the chief town of the Keltic Taurisci, which gave its 
name to Noricum, and to the Noricus ensis so dreaded by the Romans. 
From this centre the use of iron spread into Italy, Switzerland, Gaul, Spain, 
Greece, and into Eastern Germany, where the mining of iron by the Keltic 
Cotini is mentioned by Tacitus (Germ. 43). 
At many places in the Alps it is possible that there may have been outcrops of 
terrestrial iron. Men would thus find ready to hand sources of iron, and there is 
no need to suppose that meteorites first supplied him with that metal. 
4, The Tyrrhenians in Greece and Italy.‘ By Dr. OscAR MonreELIvs. 
The author brings a great variety of evidence in support of the following con- 
clusions :— 
1. That the Oriental civilisation long before 1500 B.c. was brought over to the 
Greek coasts and isles. 
2. That during this so-called Mycenean period an influence can also be traced 
in Greece from the Phcenicians and from Egypt. 
3. But that the main influence came from Asia Minor. 
4, That it was due to the immigration of peoples from this part of Asia. 
5. That these are the peoples generally called Pelasgi or Tyrrhenians by the 
Greek authors. 
6. That the Oriental civilisation advanced farther to the West, and was intro- 
duced in the eleventh century B.c. into that part of Central Italy which the 
Romans called Etruria and the Greeks Tyrrhenta. 
7. That it was due, there also, to the immigration of a people of Oriental origin, 
the Tyrrhenians, coming from over the sea, not over the Alps. This people was 
consequently a non-Italian one. The question is reserved whether it was of 
Aryan race or not. 
5. Report on the Lake Village at Glastonbury.—See Reports, p. 656. 
6. Sergi’s Theory of a Mediterranean Race. By J. L. Myrus, ILA. 
7. Boat Graves in Sweden. By Dr. H. STOuPE. 
8. Notes on a Prehistoric Settlement in Co. Kerry.” 
By R. A. S. Macauister, JA. 
The Barony of Corkaguiney, co. Kerry, is remarkable for the number and 
interest of its antiquities; and foremost among these must be placed a settlement 
of stone-built dwellings at its south-west corner, between Dunmore Head and 
Ventry Harbour. These consist of beehive-shaped houses—single, double, and 
triple, some alone, some congregated together, and surrounded by a strong enclosing 
' The Paper will be published in full in Journ. Anthr. Inst., Feb. 1897. 
2 To be published in full in a forthcoming work on the Barony of Corkaguiney. 
