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Eev. "W. A. Adams found here three anvil stones of large size and 

 irregular shape, also six others made from waterworn pehhles of 

 medium size, all of which are very good examples. He found hesides 

 a ti'acked stone. 



Maghera, County Donegal. 



In August, 1898, Mr. and Mrs. Coffey stayed a week at Castlerock,, 

 that they might at their leisure look over the prehistoric sites at 

 Portstewart and Grangemore. I went on two occasions to visit them, 

 once alone, and again in company with Mr. W. H. Patterson, but we 

 found almost nothing of interest. Mr. Coffey asked me to join him 

 and Mrs. Coffey in examining a portion of the coast of Donegal. It 

 was proposed to go to Ardara and come northwards. I had previously 

 examined the south side of Donegal from JBundoran to beyond Killybegs, 

 and I had also made several visits to Horn Head and Ballyness, and 

 had been once at Skull Island and Bunbeg, but as I had not had the 

 opportunity of examining the portion of coast extending from Maghera 

 to Bunbeg I gladly accepted Mr. Coffey's invitation. Mr. Alexander 

 D'Evelyn, m.d., of Ballymena, had visited Maghera in the neighbour- 

 hood of Ardara in the previous year, and had shown me several flint 

 arrowheads and scrapers which he had found in the sandhills there. 

 Consequently we had expectations that we would not be disappointed 

 in our visit to this place. We arrived in Ardara on the evening of the 

 13th August, and made this our headquarters for several days. On 

 the 14th we drove to Maghera, about four miles distant, and found a 

 considerable extent of sandhills which had suffered greatly from 

 deniidation, the old surface being exposed in many places, and some 

 parts entirely broken up and the contents scattered about. Dr. 

 D'Evelyn, duiing his stay in this place in 1896, had been very kind 

 to the fishermen and their families, and by judicious treatment of their 

 ailments had made them all fast fi'iends. They consequently collected 

 the flint implements as they became exposed in the sandhills and sent 

 them to him by post. He has now a nice collection of flint objects 

 from Maghera, with some of black chert, besides hammerstones. The 

 place being thus so thoroughly and regularly searched there was little 

 for us to collect, still we got three or four nicely worked flints each> 

 besides some flakes of quartz and quartzite. "We found lying around 

 several of the hearth sites split pebbles, of metamorphic rock, which 

 must have been used as cutting implements, as the supply of flint was 

 very limited, being apparently only obtainable from the occasional 



