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family. It lias become so well known tliat investigators not only from 

 otter parts of Ireland but from England have visited and inspected the 

 prehistoric settlements, and some of these have communicated to me the 

 results of their inspection, and given me lists and figures of the objects 

 they have found. Other ladies and gentlemen have visited Whitepark 

 Bay under my own guidance. In the autumn of 1896 I conducted 

 Professor Haddon, f.e.s., over the sites when he obtained over fifty 

 manufactured flint implements. A little later in the same year I went 

 with Mr. George Coffey, m.e.i.a., to the same sites, and also to those 

 at Portstewart, and on excavating portions of the old surface, where 

 still covered and intact, he got a considerable number of flint imple- 

 ments, fragments of pottery, and other remains. Miss Edith Oldham, 

 of Dublin, and Mr. Alexander D'Evelyn, m.d., of Ballymena, also 

 accompanied myself and my daughters to Whitepark Bay in the same 

 year, and they likewise were rewarded by finding implements, some of 

 which, as compared with other implements found in this place, showed 

 superior workmanship. It was then considered advisable by those who 

 had thus got a glimpse of this important Neolithic settlement and 

 manufactory of flint implements to have a further and more extensive 

 investigation, and the Easter week of 1897 was settled on for the 

 purpose. Colonel Plunket, Director of the Science and Art Depart- 

 ment, Dublin ; Professor Haddon, Mrs. Haddon and Mr. Ernest Haddon, 

 Mr, and Mrs. George Coffey, and Master Coffey, Miss Edith Oldham, 

 with myself, my wife, and thi'ee daughters formed the party. The 

 two most youthful members. Masters Haddon and Coffey, were as 

 enthusiastic as their seniors, and almost as successful in their finds. 

 We made Ballycastle our headquarters, and drove daily to the sand- 

 hills for six successive days. Work was carried on from eleven till 

 five o'clock each day, examining, digging, photographing, and mapping 

 sites. I believe I am correct in saying that the information conveyed 

 in my previous reports regarding Whitepark Bay was fully verified and 

 confirmed. Over five hundred manufactured flint implements were 

 obtained by the party on this occasion, consisting of varieties of scrapers, 

 a few arrow heads, knives, hollow scrapers, and dressed flakes, besides 

 fragments of pottery, bones, teeth, and shells. Many important 

 photographs of sites and surroundings were taken by Professor Haddon 

 and Mr. Coffey. They also mapped the sites of the various huts which 

 were plainly indicated on the sand by the stones which had been used 

 for hearths. In a later visit to this place Mr. Coffey checked the previous 

 mapping, and fijially settled the positions which are shown on the 

 map opposite. The portion which has been bared of sand and sward, 



