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XIX. 



EEPORT ON A PREHISTORIC BURIAL NEAR NEWCASTLE, 

 COUNTY OF WICKLO W. Br GEO. COFFEY, C. BROWNE, 

 M.D., AND T. J. WESTROPP, M.A. 



[Eead June 14, 1897.] 



Me. R. J. Moss having kindly reported to the Secretary of the Royal 

 Irish Academy on the 24th May, 1897, that a chamber containing human, 

 remains had been discovered near Newcastle, in the county of Wicklow, 

 we at his request visited the locality on the day following. The re- 



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mains were found on the farm of Mr. S. J. Sutton in the southern 

 townland of Blackditch, parish of Killiskey, about a mile and a 

 quarter south-east of the village of Newcastle. (Ordnance Map, Sheet 

 19.) The circumstances of the discovery were as follows: — While 

 breaking up a grass-field the plough struck against what was thought 



