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observed. In the course of the excavations very few relics 

 were brought to light, though a few were found during the 

 summer by Mr. William M'Dowell, of Lough Mourne School, 

 and Mr. Bulla, a member of the club, and others. Doubtless 

 many articles lie too deeply embedded in the soft mud to be 

 recovered except at too great expense. Subjoined is a com- 

 plete list : — Charcoal and charred bones, in considerable 

 quantity ; teeth of horses, sheep, and others ; horns of deer 

 and bones, flint flakes, some of them marked by fire ; a pair of 

 whetstones, fossil sea urchins, and a perforated stone, appa- 

 rently worn either as ornaments, or more probably for charms ; 

 an iron hatchet, of the early or bronze type, with a hole for 

 attachment of thong ; two small earthen crucibles, an earthen- 

 ware spindle whorl, about five feet of the prow of a " dug out " 

 oaken canoe. All the above finds, though not numerous, are 

 of similar character to those found in crannogs elsewhere. Of 

 the wooden huts in which the occupants lived no trace was 

 found, but, except in one or two cases, these have invariably 

 disappeared. Mr. Wakeman, of Enniskillen, however, found in 

 a crannog in Ballydoolough Lake, a few years since, the foun- 

 dations of an oblong frame house, of squared logs of wood, 

 which was probably the type of these buildings. 



More than one hundred crannogs have now been investi- 

 gated in Ireland, Mr. W. F. Wakeman having examined at 

 least twenty in Fermanagh alone. From some of these, im- 

 mense quantities of bones, pottery, iron, and bronze weapons 

 and tools have been obtained. A great many have been found 

 in the County Antrim, and the late Edward Benn, Esq., made 

 a large collection from them, many of which objects are now in 

 the museum. Particulars of most of these will be found in 

 the Club's Guide to Belfast, the Ulster Journal of Arche- 

 ology, and in the Proceedings of the Royal Historical 

 and Archaeological Society. Until recently crannogs,— z>., 

 artificial islands — found as above described, were thought 

 to be almost confined to Ireland ; but during the last few years 

 a great many have been discovered in Scotland. During the 



