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with ; but from the pieces found, some idea can be formed of the size 
and shape of the originals. A few ornamental pieces were obtained, 
which show an attempt at artistic design. 
The material used in the manufacture of the pottery I believe to 
have been the Lias mud and shale which underlies the chalk in the 
immediate vicinity. 
Bones of various animals are also very numerous, the limb bones 
being invariably smashed and broken, evidently for the purpose of 
extracting the marrow. They are of ox, sheep, goat, pig, dog, and 
red and fallow deer, as well as of smaller animals. 
A human lower jaw, evidently of an aged female, and an arm bone 
(humerus) were also found associated with the pottery and flints. 
Various sized and shaped stone hammers and crushers were also 
gathered; some are of quartzite and chalk flint, but they are principally 
of basalt. 
Three examples of querns or corn crushers (‘‘ saddle querns’’) 
were found. The finest specimen I took with me. It is a sandstone, 
and well suited for grinding grain, hollowed along the centre from 
long use, and measures 19 x 12 x 5 inches. The other two were of 
basalt, but not well preserved. 
I also procured a very good specimen of a top crushing or grinding- 
stone (or ‘‘ muller’’) of basalt. 
Close to the ‘‘saddle quern” a bored stone (‘‘ whorl stone’’) 
was dug out. Itis 14} inch in diameter, + inch thick, and composed 
of hard red grit. 
Small heaps of recent shells—principally limpet—are here and 
there to be met with, associated with the other remains. They are 
evidently the kitchen middens of the Paleolithic people. 
Mr. W. J. Knowles of Cullybackey, Co. Antrim, was the first to 
notice this interesting locality, of which he gives an account in the 
Journal of the Anthropological Institute for 1880. 
I feel satisfied that further search at this place will yield most 
useful results by assisting to throw additional light on the manners 
and customs of the old Celtic inhabitants of Ireland. 
