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of Lame, about seventy yards from the sea shore, and about 

 five feet above the level of high water mark. The skeleton, 

 when uncovered, lay obliquely, the head pointing towards the 

 N. W. The soil about it, consisting of sand, without almost 

 any admixture of clay, may have, in the lapse of time, shifted 

 its depth ; but there scarcely appeared to have been more 

 than from eighteen inches to two feet of sand or soil above 

 these remains. 



There was no appearance of stone kist, or hollow space 

 formed by flags set edgeways, which appear to belong ex- 

 clusively to the more ancient interments preceded by crema- 

 tion; fragments of the skeleton alone being found in such, 

 with indications of the action of fire, and usually accompanied 

 by one or more cinerary urns. Yet although there was in 

 the present instance no trace of coffin, either of stone or 

 wood, there appeared no reason to doubt that the inter>- 

 ment was efiected in a regular and orderly manner. Across 

 the breast was found the sword, its handle disposed towards 

 the right hand. On the same side, but beneath the sword , 

 was the lance head. The position of the remaining articles 

 Was not noticed at the time by the workmen, and therefore 

 cannot now be ascertained. 



Mr. Smith placed beside these weapons a sword and lance 

 from his collection, selected from some found in the remark- 

 able heap of bones in the townland of Lagore, near Dun- 

 shaughlin, in the County of Meath ; a paper descriptive of 

 which was read before the Academy by Doctor Wilde, on the 

 27th of April last. The straight shape and uniform breadth 

 of the blade of this last mentioned sword, and the form of the 

 lance head, appeared remarkably similar, though on a reduced 

 scale, to those of the weapons found near Larne. The comb 

 and bronze pin are nearly identical with several of those dis- 

 covered at Dunshaughlin, where, it is observable, no brazen 

 weapon of any description occurred. 



