Armstrong — Associated Finds of Irish Neolithic Celts. 89 



The Academy's collection contains another Neolithic vessel ornamented 

 with incised stripes, and having a rounded base ; it was found in a 

 subterranean cavern approached by a narrow passage, beside the moat of 

 Dunagore, Co. Antrim. A stone celt and a number of tlint arrow-heads 

 are stated to have been found with the vessel, but they have not been 

 preserved. 1 



A stone celt with a pointed butt, and a hammer stone, were 'found, 

 presumably together, in the townland of Cam, Latnamara, Newbliss, 

 Co. Monaghan: they were purchased by the Academy from Mr. Michael 

 Croarkin. 



Co. Sligo. — The Academy's collection contains a food-vessel of advanced 

 type, catalogued by Wilde 2 as "found at Bathbam, five miles west of Collooney, 

 county of Sligo, in the summit of an ancient rath, ' in a square coffer of flag- 

 stones, placed on edge, and contained burned bones and the small mica slate 

 disc,' which stands in front of it on the shelf." Col. W. G. Wood- Martin, m.r.i.a., 

 in a memoir on The Buclc Stone Monuments of Ireland? published some thirty 

 years later than Wilde's Catalogue, figured this urn, the disc, and also a small 

 celt of shale with a pointed butt, which he described as having been found 

 with the urn and disc. Wilde 4 has catalogued this disc (W. 512) as " found 

 near Eathbarn, Co. Sligo." It seems doubtful if the celt was discovered in 

 actual association with the urn and disc, for Wilde was usually careful to 

 mention objects that had been found together ; and the fact of his having 

 done this in the case of the disc, but neglected the celt, leaves the association 

 of the objects open to question : therefore it appears better not to use this 

 find as evidence. 



Co. Westmeatli. — Two stone celts were found together when ploughing 

 a field at Clonrelick, Mount Temple, Co. Westmeatli. They were purchased 

 by the Academy in 1912. The butt of the larger celt has been broken 

 off, and the end ground ; that of the smaller has been slightly flattened. 

 (Fig. 1, 13 and 14.) It is probable, from the name of the locality, Clonrelick, 

 i.e. the meadow of the cemetery, that these celts formed portion of the 

 furniture of a grave, in which case the bones had possibly either perished or 

 were not noticed by the person who found the celts. 



1 Wilde, op. tit., p. 184. 



2 Ibid., p. 189. 



3 Journal Royal Society of Intiquaries of Ireland, xviii, pp. 271. 272. Abereromby 

 (Bronze. Age Pottery, i, pp. 12(5 and 143) follows Wood-Martin in describing the objects 

 as found together. 



4 Op. cit. p. 71. 



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