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are numerous." The greater quantity of these bones were split, and 

 almost all were broken as by the blow of a stone. In most of the 

 valleys certain spots had a blackened appearance, exhibiting carbon 

 mixed with limpet shells and broken pebbles. The bones, teeth, and 

 horns had been submitted to Professor Cunningham, and they were 

 found to belong to the red deer and pig. No flint or pottery was 

 found. I believe this must be a Stone-Age settlement similar to the 

 places farther north which I have described. Stone graves con- 

 taining skeletons are mentioned by Archdeacon Wynne. These seem 

 to be similar to the graves found a few years ago at Glenarm and 

 Island Magee, county Antrim, and on Skull Island, county Donegal, 

 which I have described in my second report. They are on the sites 

 of Stone-Age settlements, but whether they are graves of the Stone- 

 Age people or of later inhabitants who buried on the older sites 

 has yet to be determined. 



Mr. W. H. Patterson, in the same volume, page 80, reports the 

 finding of sites belonging to the Stone Age among the sandhills of 

 Ballykinler, Dundrum Bay, county Down. The flakes, scrapers, 

 pieces of pottery, and other remains, show that they are of the same 

 kind as those found on the Dundrum side of the bay, which I 

 described in my first report. 



In the "Journal of the Eoyal Historical and Archaeological 

 Association," vol. ii., 4th series, page 258, there is a Paper by 

 Mr. Geo. M. Atkinson on kitchen-middens in Cork Harbour. Some 

 of the mounds were at least five feet thick in the portion that still 

 remained. The shells were all marine species and judging by the 

 apparent rate of change must give some thousands of years for the 

 age of the first formation. The peasants told him that the shells 

 had been collected by the pagan Irish for the Bolgies. At Oyster 

 Creek, near Kinsale, he found remnants of kitchen-middens with 

 charcoal, rubbed stones, and bones of horse, ox {Bos longifrons), and 

 dog. 



The Qttaetzite Implements. 



If flakes were split from the fiat sides or faces of a quartzite 

 pebble they would appear like the specimen from Dugort, shown in 

 PI. XIX., fig. 9, or that from Horn Head, shown in PL xix., fig. 10, 

 and would be suitable for axes. One of these has a hacked and 

 blunted edge, which no doubt was occasioned by the specimen being 

 used as a tool. Flakes struck from the narrow sides, like fig. 4, 

 PL XVIII., would be more suitable for chisels and scrapers. We find 



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