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tokens, and objects of later date, which, fell down to a level with the 

 Stone Age Settlements, when a covering of 30 feet of sand was blown, 

 away, is a case of the kind I refer to (see 3rd series, vol. i., ISTo. 5, 

 p. 615). The bronze pins fonnd here and in other sites did not 

 belong to the Bronze Age, but to a much later time, and as far as I 

 had heard at the date of publishing my last report, no objects of the 

 Bronze Age had been found in any of the sites. The Eev. W. A. 

 Adams has, however, since found, at Whitepark Bay, a mould for cast- 

 ing a bronze winged celt (see No. XY.). This was picked up on the 

 surface, and it is therefore easy to explain that it must have descended 

 fi'om a higher level when the sands were blown away ; but llr. Adams 

 has found on top of a mound of chalk rock in the sand-hills of ^"hitepark 

 Bay among black charred material, a small vessel of coarse pottery, 

 3 inches high, and of about 3 inches in width throughout ; only at 

 the mouth it is 3 inches wide in one direction, and 3i- inches at right 

 angles, which gives the idea when looking sideways, that the vessel 

 has a sort of spout (see '^o. XYI., fig. 6). It was found resting on a 

 small piece of basaltic rock, and a similar small piece of rock rested on 

 the top. On taking it up he found parts of moulds for casting bronze 

 swords firmly attached to the side of the vessel, which with difficulty 

 he got removed, and on clearing out the vessel, he found fragments 

 of bronze inside. The portions of the moulds for the sword are 

 formed of coarse clay outside, with a mixture of fine sand and clay, 

 lining the coarser material. He has found two pieces which appa- 

 rently fit each other, where the handle is attached to the blade, and 

 digging round about he got some more fragments of moulds, with parts 

 of another mould for a bronze' spear-head {^o. XYI., figs. 4, 5). A 

 small hole runs lengthvnse through the coarse outer parts of the various 

 moulds, which was intended to be represented in the figures, but was 

 overlooked. A mould of similar kind is shown by W. !F. TVakeman in 

 the Journal Eoyal Soc. Antiq., Ireland (see vol. v., fig. 4, p. 109). 

 A fragment of a mould, of same class, from Boho, county Eermanagh, 

 is in the Academy's collection. It also has a hole running lengthwise 

 along the back. He also found a stone which had been used for 

 rubbing or grinding something on, possibly as suggested by Mr. Adams 

 for grinding the clay and sand to make the fine lining inside the 

 sword moulds. All these objects, he says, were dug from the black 

 layer, and he brought away the full of the little vessel of the black 

 matter composing the layer, which is apparently entirely wood 

 charcoal. Three pieces of sword moidds, and two of spear moulds, 

 are shown, the former in figs. 1, 2, 3, and the latter in 4, 5, K'o. XYI. 



