BiGGEit — Some Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Vlster. 3 : 



The two larger urns are ornamented ; in one the upper portion of the 

 vessel is decorated with a diamond pattern filled with three and four lines, 

 and in the other with a simple herring-bone design. The urns and fragments 

 belong to what is termed the " over-hanging rim type," and probably may be 

 placed in the latter portion of the Bronze Age. This type is fairly repre- 

 sented in finds made in the counties of Antrim and Down ; and 

 Dr. Abercromby's illustrations,' 1, Plate LXXIX, figs. 207-10, of urns found 

 in these counties may be compared with the vessels which form the subject of 

 the present paper. These urns have now been presented to the Academy, and 

 are to be displayed in the National Museum as found with the actual earth 

 and gravel around them. 



II. 



Dummy Stone Celt found in a Sepulchral Chamber in the Parish of 



Caenmoney in Antrim. 



In the spring of 1915 a friend of mine, a farmer named David Smith, who 

 lives quite close to me in my own parish, was ploughing up new land on the 

 southern slope of Carnmoney Hill, in the townland and parish of that name in 

 the County of Antrim, when the nose of his plough turned aside a flag-stone; 

 revealing a small chamber about 3 feet by 2 feet wide and a foot deep, built 



Fio. 1. — Dummy Celt from Carnmoney, Comity Antrim. 



with ordinary flat field stones. The chamber was quite empty, only a little 

 soil and dust being in it, excepting this dummy celt. The farmer at once 

 informed me, and I visited the place, confirming his information. 



The celt is at its longest 8§ inches, and at its widest 3^ inches and 

 |-inch thick. It is carefully worked, and the edges are well ground, but it 

 shows no appearance of usage. It is made of shale (fig. 1). 



' Bronze Age Pottery, vol. ii. 



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