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It may be well to state, that since tlie barrow was opened, Colonel 

 Coddington has marked off the mound by placing a number of large 

 stones round it. Unless recorded they might at some future time be 

 mistaken for portion of the monument. I should like to add that Irish 

 Archaeology is indebted to Colonel Coddington for the interest he has 

 shown in these and other remains found on his property, and for the 

 care he has taken to secure the preservation of the monuments. 



Report on the Teeth : by Dk. Beown and He. Gekaed Black. 



The teeth submitted to us are all in a very advanced stage of 

 decomposition from long interment, only the caps of enamel being 

 left as material from which to form a judgment ; many were thickly 

 coated with lime salts from the urn. They are contained in the boxes 

 numbered from one to five as received, and clearly belong to three 

 individuals, two males and one female : all adults ; these facts being 

 shown not only by the duplication of several of the specimens, but also 

 by the differences in the markings of the teeth and in the colour of 

 the enamel. 



A. The boxes marked 1 and 2, contain the following teeth which 

 in their general structure and markings appear to have belonged to a 

 young adult female : upper jaiv — right 2nd bicuspid, right 3rd molar 

 (box 2), left 1st bicuspid, left 3rd molar: loiver jaiv — right 1st molar, 

 left 1st bicuspid, left 1st molar. 



B. The teeth in the other boxes are mingled together but evidently 

 belonged to two individuals ; they were all more or less marked by a 

 dark stain from the soil and were coated with lime salts ; the charac- 

 ters are very similar and the existence of two individuals is mainly 

 proved by the duplication of some of the teeth, but it is not possible 

 in every case to decide which to assign to each of the two — («) or (J), 

 so the arrangement is arbitrary : (a) upper jaw — right 1st molar, right 

 2nd molar, right 3rd molar, right 1st biscupid, right canine, right 

 lateral incisor, left lateral incisor, left 2nd bicuspid, left 2nd molar, 

 left 3rd molar : lower jaiv right 3rd molar, right 2nd molar, right 2nd 

 bicuspid, right canine, right central incisor, left canine, left 1st molar, 

 left 2nd molar, left 3rd molar : (1) upper jaw — right canine, left canine, 

 1st biscuspid left, 2nd left biscuspid, 1st left molar, left 2nd molar : 

 loioer jaw — right 2nd molar, right central incisor, left 1st biscuspid, 

 left 2nd bicuspid, left 1st molar. 



