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loose sand, but whilst it may have belonged to the Stone Age people, 

 the evidence is not satisfactory that it did so, owing to its not being 

 found in the old surface. It may possibly have belonged to a person 

 who was buried in the sand at a later date. 



Ballyness. 



I spent two days among the hut-sites in the sand-dunes of Ballyness, 

 in 1892, excavating the old surface wherever it was undisturbed, 

 especially near places where huts had stood and also in the hut-sites 

 themselves. The old surface yielded the same kind of rude flakes and 

 spalls of quartzite rocks, with hammer-stones and other remains that 

 were found at Horn Head. Some fragments of pottery were also 

 found. A great many pins, brooches, coins, tradesmen's tokens, and 

 other metallic objects of very recent date had been found in these 

 sands several years ago when the sandy covering of thirty feet in 

 thickness was blown away, as described in my second report ; but the 

 people who formerly picked up those objects informed me that none 

 had been found for some years past. I kept a good look out for some 

 of the handsome pins and brooches that were formerly abundant on 

 the sands, but nothing of the kind turned up. 



Sheephaven Sands. 



I visited the southern end of these sands in 1892, and observed 

 many hut- sites similar to those of Horn Head and Ballyness. A farmer, 

 whose land adjoins the sands, informed me that, several years ago, bronze 

 articles of the nature of pins and brooches had been found, but that 

 no such objects had been obtained in late years. The hut-sites were 

 intact, and the old surface or black layer yielded the usual broken 

 quartzite pebbles with edible shells and broken and split bones. In 

 1894 I visited these sands near Kosapenna Hotel. The sites in front 

 of the hotel are very numerous, and several articles belonging to the 

 early Iron Period are reported to have been found. The objects of 

 the Stone Age observed by me were pieces of hard crystalline rock of 

 the district, broken so as to obtain flakes or spalls with sharp edges, 

 similar to what is found in other sites where flint does not occur. 



PoKTSALON. 



I had previously found flint implements and other objects of the 

 Stone Age near Buncrana and Fahan on the eastern side of Lough 

 Swilly; and in 1894 I examined a considerable stretch of sandhills at 



