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riously rivetted together, and having in the°"centre a circular 

 ornament, with a cross in it, that has evidently once had an 

 arabesque pattern on it ; sundry miniature frying-pans, and a 

 small whetstone ; single and double bronze rings ; one coin of 

 the Emperor Hadrian ; one bulla, Pope Paul V. ; sundry silver 

 coins, most of them Edwards, and one so late as James, 1690, 

 and one silver coin, unfigured in any collection that I have seen. 



" Between the island and the ruined church were found 

 two canoes, hollowed out of single oak trees, but neither of 

 them much more than two feet wide ; the stern of one of them 

 was perforated with numerous auger holes, about one inch 

 each in diameter. 



" On examining the structure of the island itself, which 

 was effected by cutting a trench 20 feet long by 5 wide, as 

 near the centre as possible, there was found, at about eight 

 inches under the surface, which was covered with rank grass 

 growing in a rich mould, a very close-laid pavement of irre- 

 gular-sized boulder'stones. When this was removed, a stratum 

 of black earth was exposed, with occasional fragments of bones 

 through it of swine, fowl, sheep, cattle, and deer; and about 

 six inches beneath this, a considerable layer of burned earth, 

 with several inches of unburned clay under it. Then came a 

 second very closely-laid pavement of large-sized, flat-surfaced 

 stones, beneath which were alternate layers of black earth and 

 burned clay and marl, reaching down to the log platform, and 

 interspersed, like the one above it, Avith occasional bones and 

 fragments of bones ; some few human remains, viz., one skull, 

 and portions of some more were got on the exterior edge. No 

 coffin-stone, chest, or other sepulchral remains. 



" Amongst the bones found were some heads of oxen of the 

 purest short-horn breed, precisely similar to those found at 

 Dunshaughlin. 



"The only structures of this description brought under pub- 

 he notice previously have been the stockade at Dunshaughlin, 

 mentioned by Dr. Wilde, and one at Lough Fea in the County 



