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pebbles found on the seashore. We got several hammer-stones, and 

 brought away three or four well-marked specimens. We found, as in 

 the Antrim and Derry sites, the usual broken and split bones, also the 

 teeth of ox, boar, sheep or goat, and red deer, besides shells of cockle, 

 limpet, periwinkle, with occasional examples of mussel. Sometimes 

 small heaps of one kind of shell, most generally periwinkle, limpet, 

 and cockle were found, though more frequently all kinds were mixed 

 together. 



NARTtf, CoTJjSTTY DoNEGAI. 



!N"arin is about five miles north of Ardara, ^and we selected this 

 place for inspection on the second day. The sand-hills occupy a 

 sheltered position, and the denudation had not been of so destructive a 

 kind as to obliterate all traces of the prehistoric siu'face. We found 

 in hollows, that had been scooped out by the wind, a considerable 

 quantity of flint. The flakes were mostly of a regular knife-like kind, 

 thin, with sharp edges, suitable for knives even without any di'essing, 

 but many were nicely dressed into knives with handles, and such 

 implements occurred in greater abundance than any other kind. "VVe 

 obtained eighteen or twenty of these, some of them being very perfect. 

 They were well made and sharp, and many had never been used. We 

 also got some well made scrapers and a few small cores, hammer- 

 stones, and an anvil stone, besides flakes and split pebbles of other 

 hard rocks. Bones and teeth of ox, pig, sheep or goat, and shells of 

 oyster, cockle, limpet, and periwinkle were found, with occasional 

 examples of the razor shell. At the end of the sand-hills adjoining 

 the village of I*farin we observed graves lined along the sides and 

 covered on the top with thin slabs of stone, but we did not consider 

 that these graves were in any way connected with the people who 

 made the flint implements. The corpses had been buried in an ex- 

 tended position with the head to the west. The skull in one instance 

 was exposed, but so shattered that it could not have been restored. 

 Graves of a similar kind have been found at Skull Island, on the coast 

 near Grlenarm, on Island Magee, county Antrim, and elsewhere. The 

 graves at jSTarin are noticed in vol. vi., 5th ser., page 382, of the 

 Journal of the Royal Soc. of Antiquaries, Ireland. Dr. D'Evelyn 

 examined these sites a short time after otu' visit and found a flint knife 

 and several other objects. Mr. and Mrs. Coffey, at Easter, 1899, made 

 -a second inspection of the sites at Narin, and dug over some of the old 

 pre-historic surface. They got more knives and scrapers, besides a 



