Knowles — PreJdstoric Remains, Sandhills, Coad of Ireland. 339 



Gkan&ehoee, CoijjfTY Deery. 



Several excursions were also made to this place, which lies opposite 

 Portstewart. These two stations may he looked on as one, as they are 

 only separated by the river Bann. My wife, son, and daughter, on 

 the occasion of an excui'sion to this place, in company with ITr. Coffey, 

 found a number of minute borers of flint. They were first noticed by 

 Mr. Coffey, who drew the attention of the others to his find, and then 

 they all searched diligently and found within a radius of a few yards 

 over 150 of these minute objects. The finding of so many on such a 

 small space would lead to the belief that this was a place where 

 small borers had been manufactured, or else that a workman using 

 such implements had located himself on this spot. Some of these 

 borers show signs of wear at the point, as though they had been used 

 in drilling, and discarded when worn. Several examples are shown, 

 natural size, on jS'o. YIII., figs. 55 to 61, p. 363. 



Dr^DRrir, Cons^TY Dow:s^. 



I have not in previous reports figured any objects from Dundrum ^ 

 but the finds from this place have been very numerous, and, as some of 

 the articles are of interest, I have had a series of them drawn, in order 

 that they may appear as illustrations in the present report. After 

 giving an account of my first finds in this place to the British Asso- 

 ciation at Sheffield in 1879, which was published in extenso in The 

 Belfast News-Letter and Northern Whig, I was invited by the Mar- 

 chioness of Downshire to go over the sites with her. Lord and Lady 

 Arthiu- Hill, and other friends. I found that Lady Downshire had 

 collected a considerable number of flint instruments from the sites 

 which siuTound Murlough, her residence on the Dundrum sandhills, 

 and that she was on the alert to secure any fiu'ther finds that turned 

 up. I have not, therefore, done more than give the sites at Dimdrum 

 a passing inspection since that time. Other archaeologists have, how- 

 ever, continued to explore the sandhills at Muiiough, and also those 

 at Ballykialer, on the opposite side of Dundrum Bay, and have found 

 many interesting articles of flint and other material. I may mention 

 W. H. Patterson, ^t.r.i.a. ; George Coffey, ^.e.i.a. ; Mr. H. S. Ward, 

 of Dublin ; and Rev. W. A. Adams, of Antrim. I understand Messrs. 

 Coffey and Ward made a visit to Dundi'um sites in 1899, and found 



