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XXIII. 



ON SOME OSSEOUS REMAINS FOUKD AT OLD CONNATJGHT, 

 BEAY, CO. DUBLIN. By D. J. CUNNINGHAM, M.D., 

 F.R.S., AND C. E. BEOWNE, M.D. 



[Read June 11, 1894.] 



The remains on whicli we report were discovered in August, 1893, in 

 a pagan sepulcliral mound opened in the grounds of Old Connaught, 

 Bray. His Grace the Eev. Lord Plunkett forwarded the bones for 

 examination to the Anthropological Laboratory of Trinity College. 



The circumstances under which they were discovered, and the 

 nature of the ornaments and other objects found with them, which 

 give a clue to their antiquity, have been treated elsewhere.^ 



The specimens submitted to us for examination consisted of a large 

 hamper filled with the bones of several animals, and a box containing 

 two crania and some other human bones. To these were afterwards 

 added another cranium forwarded by the Eev. E. Scriven, secretary to 

 his Grace the Archbishop, and a small hamper containing the frag- 

 ments of another cranium, an inferior maxilla, and some other bones 

 from Mr. W. F. Wakeman, F.S.A., who reported on the archaeology 

 of the finds. 



The bones of animals do not present any points of particular 

 interest from an anatomical point of view, and may be dismissed in a 

 few words. 



They consisted of : — 



( 1 ) A large number of bones of the pig, and many teeth of the 



same animal. 



(2) The horn-cores, a very great number of fragments of the 



bones, and many teeth of oxen. 



(3) Metatarsal and metacarpal bones of a horse or pony. 



' W. F. Wakeman, F.S.A. : "On a recently-discovered Pagan Sepulchral 

 Mound in the Grounds of Old Connaught, near Bray, Co. Dublin," Proc. Eoyal 

 Society of Antiquaries, vol. iv., p. 54, 1894. 



