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XXXVIII. 



THE THIRD EEPOET ON THE PREHISTORIC REMAINS 

 EROM THE SANDHILLS OF THE COAST OF IRE- 

 LAND. By W. J. KNOWLES, M.R.I.A. 



(Plates XYIII., XIX., and XX.) 



[Read February 11, 1895.] 



In my first report^ on this subject I described twelve prehistoric stations 

 situated in various parts of the coast, extending from Dublin north- 

 wards, and round the north and west coasts as far as Stredagh in 

 county Sligo. My second report- dealt with further researches in the 

 most important of these stations, and also with new sites discovered 

 within the stretch of coast line I have mentioned, and others on the 

 west coast outside that area as far as Killala in county Mayo. Follow- 

 ing a similar course I have now to report continued research in 

 various sites which I have already described, and also the discovery of 

 several new stations, not only inside the area already embraced, but 

 extending still further southwards along the west coast. 



HoEN Head. 



In 1892 I spent several days at Horn Head, and made further 

 diligent search among the hut sites in the sand-dunes of that place. I 

 carefully excavated portions of the old surface, and obtained pottery, 

 rude flakes, and implements of the hard crystalline rocks of that 

 neighbourhood, hammer-stones and anvil-stones, besides edible shells 

 and broken and split bones of various Mammalia. I obtained the butt- 

 end of a stone axe of greenstone, chipped into shape, but not ground, 

 and a portion of the same kind of rock partially chipped with the view, 

 I expect, of making another axe. I also obtained a human skull in 



^ Vide these Proceedings, series 2, vol. li., Polit. Lit. & Aiitiq., p. 105 ; series^ 

 3, vol. i., p. 173. 



^ These Proceedings, series 3, vol. i. p. 612. 



