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These include three knives (Plate XVII, figs. 12-14) ; two spurs : one of 

 these (Plate XVII, fig. 22) is a prick-spur, and is probably Norman ; the 

 other is considerably later, but is so much broken it is impossible to 

 place a dale upon it ; a horseshoe of ordinary type (Plate XVII, fig. 23), 

 twenty-one nails with large flat heads and long points (Plate XVII, figs. 1 

 and 3), a small object with a hook at each end, which was possibly portion 

 of a horse's bit (Plate XVII, fig. 31) ; several long pointed objects with 

 small sockets at the lower ends (Plate XVII, figs. 2 and 4), two objects 

 which may have been some kind of staple (Plate XVII, figs. 18 and 19), 

 and about twenty indeterminate fragments of nails and other objects. 



Among the miscellaneous finds were three rounded pebbles, probably used 

 as hammer-stones, a flattish stone that may have been used for polishing or 

 sharpening objects, and a small leaden bullet. 



A hazel-nut was also found. The remains of pig were very numerous 

 in the crannog, and among the tusks the largest found measured 6^ inches 

 round the outer curve, and -| of an inch in thickness (Plate XVII, fig. 17). 



Dr. E. F. Scharff, Keeper of the Natural History Collections in the 

 National Museum, Dublin, has kindly reported as follows upon the bones 

 found in the crannog. 



The following species could be identified from the bones : — 



Ox, horse, pig, reel deer, sheep or goat, and two or three kinds of birds. 

 The bones were much broken, as if they were the remnants of various meals. 

 The pig had the appearance of the domestic pig, but, owing to the absence of 

 any complete skulls, the identification is uncertain. Sheep and goat are 

 very closely related in their osteology, and no complete bones were present to 

 identify with certainty. Some of the deer-bones were extremely large and 

 must have belonged to exceptionally large stags. The presence of antler-tips 

 only showed that the antlers had been used for the manufacture of bone 

 implements. 



Mr. A. C. Forbes, Chief Forestry Inspector to the Department of 

 Agriculture, kindly examined the remains of the piles and other wooden 

 objects from the crannog, and reports that they consist for the most part 

 of oak, though some pieces are probably birch and willow ; but the wood is 

 too decomposed to allow him to identify them with certainty. 



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