PROCEEDINGS 



Of 



THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY 



PAPERS READ BEFORE THE ACADEMY 



I. 



SOME RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN ULSTER. 



By FRANCIS JOSEPH BIGGER, M.R.I.A. 



Plates I -II. 



Read Notembeh 8, 1915. Published February 14, 1916. 



A PiND OF THREE LaKGB CINEEARY BuRIAL TJrNS FROM THE BANKS OF 



Lough Neagh in Antrim. 



Plate T. 



These two perfect urns and the fragments of another were turned out last 

 spring in a gravel pit by James Nimmo, in the townland of Creggan, in the 

 Parish of Duneane, about half a mile from the banks of Lough Neagh, in 

 Antrim. 



The whole of this district is thickly studded with earth-forts, mostly of 

 the single-ring and fosse type with depressed centres. Many are still occupied 

 by primitive cottages and hag-yards, showing continuous occupation for 

 centuries. The place-names all around also prove the land to have been closely 

 inhabited. 



The urns were discovered in a gravel bank which was being removed to 

 provide road material. The bank rises gently above a small stream running 

 into the lake to the south. There was no surface-indication of their presence, 

 and there was no cist or stone enclosure around any of them. They were 

 about two feet below the surface, a few feet apart, inverted, resting on rude 

 slabs, covering the bones which were piled below them. On their discovery, 

 word was sent to me, and I at once visited the place. The two urns had 



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