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sily hollowed out of a piece of a trunk of fir. Its length, 

 when found, was exactly the same as the extreme length of 

 the table, two feet. Its breadth was about ten inches, and 

 just sufficient to cover the extremities of the four legs, but 

 not to allow of its lying between them. It has since split 

 lengthwise, in such a manner as to alter its proportions mate- 

 rially. In the edge of one side, where it has been somewhat 

 injured, are the marks of two holes, exactly answering to the 

 two in the rim under the table. From those particulars it 

 may be inferred that the table was used by persons who sat 

 on the ground at their meals; and that the dish, when not in 

 use, was attached by a thong to the under surface of the table, 

 which might be hung against the wall of the dwelling, or 

 slung on the baggage when the owners migrated from place 

 to place in the woods. It is not improbable, too, that the 

 curved ends of the table may (as has been suggested by an 

 observant person) have been of use in transferring meal, when 

 ground in a quern or hand-mill, from the table to the dish. 

 Possibly, also, the rim on the under surface may have been 

 of use in kneading dough for cakes, the table being inverted 

 for that purpose. 



The workmanship and appearance of both articles are 

 rude in the extreme, and indicate a very low state of civiliza- 

 tion in the people who used them. 



Nothing very remarkable has been found in the same bog, 

 or in any of the many adjoining ones, except some stags' 

 horns, which were dug up in the next little valley, in the 

 townland of High Cross, and which are now in the posses- 

 sion of John Lindesay, Esq., of Lough ry. 



DONATIONS. 



Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles d' Agricul- 

 ture et ^Industrie. Puhliees par La Societe Royale d Agri- 

 culture, Sfc. de Lyon. Tome V. Annee 1842. 



