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see no reason for assigning an earlier date to the Irisli specimens, but 

 if in this instance the tool-stones and the scrapers could be proved to 

 be contemporaneous, I should more readily accept the scrapers as 

 belonging to the Age of Iron than I should the tool- stone as belonging 

 to that of Stone." 



Sii' John Evans has never contradicted these statements in any 

 publication that I have seen, but a considerable time after they were 

 made he took an opportunity of informing me, I think at the Sheffield 

 Meeting of the British Association, that he was mistaken in the 

 opinions he had expressed, and was sorry he had made the state- 

 ments quoted above. 



Finds of Articles BELONGr^G to Beonze and Ieon Ages. 



In previous reports I have referred to finds of bronze pins and 

 other objects of even later date, which have been hidden or lost in the 

 sand-hills, and when the sands had been blown away, dropped down 



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to a level with the remains belonging to the Stone A ge, and even got 

 mixed with them. The Ballyness find of bronze pins, tradesmen's 



