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late, and tlien Mr. Coffey discovered some tiny flakes of flint. We all 

 groped about, and then Mr Coffey found a very good tracked stone. 

 I also found a beautifully worked small flint 'slug,' and later on a 

 tiny scraper. Mrs. Coffey found some worked pieces of flint too, and 

 we collected altogether perhaps fifty pieces of flint, cores, flakes, and 

 little fragments." 



They examined all the sandhills from Dunfanaghy to Ballyness, 

 and found a few more pieces of flint, and some pottery. The tracked 

 stone found by Mr. Coffey may probably be of the same age as the 

 bronze pins found at one time in such abundance at Ballyness Bay, as 

 objects of that kind are believed by our best authorities to belong 

 to the Iron Age. Dr. D'Evelyn of Ballymena, who followed our 

 party about a week later, found a well made arrowhead of flint at 

 Ballyness. 



HokjST Head, Cotjnit Donegal. 



"We also visited the sites on the sandhills of Horn Head which I 

 have previously mentioned in other reports. In one place we found 

 about two square yards of surface with limpet, cockle, periwinkle and 

 dog- whelk, all mixed and thinly scattered over this space. The dog 

 whelk was not broken as in some other stations, and was rather more 

 numerous than any of the other species. The hut sites at Horn Head 

 are mostly bounded by stones, very irregularly placed, but giving 

 them a somewhat circular appearance. I paced two of these and 

 f oujid the diameters to be flve and eight paces respectively. We found 

 and brought away a good number of well marked hammerstones. 

 Dr. D'Evelyn followed us here also, and on an elevated part of the 

 sandhills within view of Dunfanaghy found a " tracked stone." There 

 are two sets of sandhills in Horn Head, one beginning at the bridge 

 crossing over from the mainland to Horn Head, and extending up to 

 the high ground I have mentioned. The other, where the hut sites 

 are found, is over the hill, and about a mile from Dunfanaghy. They 

 begin at the side of a small stream, and extend up the hill side. Mr. 

 Travers King found in the sandhills nearest Dunfanaghy, in the 

 summer of 1900, three bronze pins like those formerly found at Bally- 

 ness. One of these pins has the red enamel setting still in good 

 preservation. 



Ojiet Island, County Galwat. 



In the summer of 1899, in company with my wife, I visited Omey 

 Island, which we examined as weU as time would permit. It is a 



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