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length, thickly encrusted with verd antique, and of the shape 

 usually supposed to have been used in fastening the cloak or 

 mantle ; — and lastly, four fragments of bone ; three of them be- 

 ing portions of a comb, the 

 back of which (attached to 

 the serrated part by rivets) 

 is slightly but not untaste- 

 fully carved on both sides ; 

 and the fourth is so minute 

 and indistinct, as to render 

 its original use and form 

 uncertain. 



The manner in which 

 the skeleton was discovered 

 was thus : some lime quar- 

 ries having been lately open - 

 ed along the shore, at a dis- 

 tance from the jetty, or 

 wooden pier, at which small 

 coasting vessels, trading be- 

 tween Larne and the op- 

 posite ports of Scotland, 

 usually take in their car- 

 goes, it became necessary, 

 for the greater convenience 

 of transporting limestone 

 from the newly opened 

 quarries, to construct a 

 rail or tramway. In level- 

 ing the line marked out 

 for the purposes of such construction, in the afternoon of 

 the 7th of last November, the workmen discovered these re- 

 mains at a spot three quarters of a mile distant from the town 



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