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size ; but wtetlier the workman laid it down till a more convenient 

 season, and was prevented by some cause from returning to finish it, or 

 that it was rejected because it was not working true, I am unable to 

 say. Ml'. Coffey informs me that he and Mi-. Ward found a smaller 

 object of a similar kind. 



Much light has been thrown on the manu- 

 facture of stone implements by Mr. William 

 H. Holmes's Monograph, in the Annual Eeport 

 of the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, pub- 

 lished in 1 897. I am sti'uck with the likeness of this Dundrum specimen 

 to some of the " Turtlebacks " described by him, though in this case the 

 under-surf ace is well worked. We would require more examples before 

 we could judge whether it was likely that the workman would have 

 been unable to reduce the humped side to a curve similar to that of the 

 well- worked side. The stone does not seem to be of very good cjuality, 

 but if this was the cause of its rejection, one would have expected the 

 workman to desist sooner, as a very considerable amount of labour has 

 been expended on it. I hope ftu'ther exploration may throw some 

 light on this subject. In September, 1900, I visited these sites once 

 more, and on the Ballykinler side found a rude chopper with a place for 

 grasping with the hand di'essed, the remainder was undi'essed (fig. 93). 



