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It is rubbed down in places so as to bring it to a rudely globular 

 shape. The hole is widely splayed. The remaining beads and pen- 

 dants — with one exception, the last, a tooth — are of soft silicious stone 

 apparently allied to serpentine. One of the beads has been much 

 altered by fire. The pendants are seven in number. The largest is 

 plain, but well formed and highly polished. A smaller, also plain, is 

 more curved in outline. Three have an incised line or nicking cut 

 round the lower part. Two of these have suffered much from burn- 

 ing. One, plain, is triangular. The remaining one appears to be the 

 tooth of an animal worked and pierced. The species has not been 

 determined. 



The beads and pendants are very similar to those obtained from 

 the Loughcrew cairns. 



In type, the cairn and chambers on Belmore mountain are like- 

 wise similar to several of those on the Loughcrew hills, with the 

 exception that there was no curb of large stones around the base of 

 the cairn on Bclmorc mountain. The absence of covering stones for 

 the passage, and with one exception the chambers at Belmore moun- 

 tain, has been noticed. The absence of covering stones has been also 

 observed in the smaller cairns at Loughcrew 



About 150 yards below the cairn are the remains of a circular lis 

 or fort formed of loose stones. It is marked on the Ordnance sheet. 

 The cairn would appear to have been associated with this station or 

 settlement. 



