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it is constructed on oak piles (many of them showing the action 

 of fire), driven into the soft marl, at regidar distances, and 

 tied together by horizontal oak stretchers, so as to form a triple 

 stockade round it, with an interval of about five feet between 

 each stockade. Outside of this, to the north-westward, are 

 a number of irregularly placed piles, stretching a short dis- 

 tance from the islet, and it was adjoining to them the great 

 deposit of bones was found. The centre of these stockades was 

 laid with trunks of smallish oak trees, placed flat on the marl, 

 and all pointing to a common centre, thus forming a platform 

 whereon the island itself was constructed. When it was first 

 observed, there was, jutting out from the island to the lake, 

 towards the west, a kind of jetty or pier, formed of a double 

 row of piles and stretchers running parallel, about eight feet 

 asunder, and on which logs of timber were closely laid hori- 

 zontally. 



" Of this gangway, and of the stockades, there are now but 

 very imperfect remains, so much has been broken up and re- 

 moved by the peasantry. 



" The deposit of bones, &c, close to this island, consisted 

 of bones of cattle, deer, horses, swine, sheep, fowl, dogs, deer, 

 both fallow and red, a few specimens (in general much broken) 

 of the horns of the Irish elk, and one or two specimens of hu- 

 man remains, and amongst them a quantity of articles of a most 

 miscellaneous description, some of apparently very great anti- 

 quity, and others of a much more recent date. Amongst these 

 are spear-heads, bronze pins, some of exquisite workmanship, 

 and scarcely any two of exactly the same form. A brass bowl, 

 hammered out of the solid ; two brass vessels, made of small 

 pieces, most curiously rivetted together ; a brooch of hand- 

 some workmanship ; a variety of bone pins and implements ; 

 deer horn-combs, of very great artistic merit; horn discs, 

 like backgammon men ; knives, hooks, and hatchets of iron ; 

 swords and spear-heads ; an iron implement, like what a baker 

 uses for putting his loaves in the oven, made of sheet iron, cu- 



