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are interesting ; but there is no difficulty in the way of a correct 

 interpretation of their frequency of occurrence in different sand-hills. 

 As I have often explained, these have been hidden or lost at periods 

 perhaps long distant from each other ; but the sand in which they 

 were embedded being blown away, all were brought to one level. 



As I previously mentioned, Mr. Travers King found thi-ee bronze 

 pins at Horn Head during the summer of 1900, one of which has an 

 ornament of red enamel well preserved. I also had sent me a hand- 

 some bronze brooch which was found while pulling bent in sandhills 

 near Castleport, Co. Donegal (IS'o. XVII.). The expanded ends of the 

 brooch are filled with red enamel which is still preserved, though 

 pitted and rendered rough by weathering. In the centre of each red 

 space is a setting of glass showing eighteen lines, alternately blue 

 and white, radiating from an oval red spot, in the centre of which is 

 a dot of blue. The whole setting does not measui'e more than -jV of 

 an inch in diameter. It is therefore much more minute and elaborate 

 in its parts than a somewhat similar setting in the head of a pin 

 found at Clonmacnois, described by Miss Stokes (see "Early 

 Chiistian Art in Ireland," p. 79, fig. 28). 



This brooch is shown in No. XVII., p. 387. 



Concluding Eemarks. 



When I first began to report on the prehistoric remains from the 

 sandhills I was practically alone in that sort of work. JSTow many 

 antiquaries and students of Archfeology have come to my assistance, and 

 by their aid a great part of the coast of Ireland has been examined and 

 remains found where they were not previously suspected to exist. 

 Many places have not yet been examined at all. Some have only 

 received a very cursory examination, and none have been thoroughly 

 worked out. It is, however, satisfactory to know where the places are 

 which contain prehistoric remains, and what the sites are likely to 

 yield to the diligent explorer. The Limerick Field Club, I am glad to 

 learn, are fully alive to the importance of the finds in county Clare, 

 and I hope by their means to see those sites more fidly explored. The 

 rock used for axes at Pisherstreet is, I am informed by Professor Cole, 

 a fine grained clayey flagstone, and belongs to the coal measui-e series. 

 Being more compact and suitable for cutting tools than other rocks 

 found on the west coast of Ireland, I should expect that more 

 implements of that material will yet be found. 



There are still many places unexplored, especially islands off the 



