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non-cooking type, and this particular vessel seems clearly to be 

 a milkpan or similar vessel. A close examination of the Boghead 

 cooking pot and comparison with the fragments of the cooking 

 pots found in Knock Dhu, Donegore and Ballykennedy will con- 

 vince us that from the material from which they are made, and 

 the exact similarity of the minute details, some of the cooking 

 pots in the several places were in all probability not only contem- 

 poraneous, but from one pottery, some actually the handicraft of 

 one and the same potter; so the extraordinary similarity in design 

 and the equally marked similarity of the style of building of the 

 two souterrains of Boghead and Knock Dhu, strongly suggest that 

 they were the handiwork of one and the same builder. I may 

 here mention that the souterrain at Boghead, Muckamore, is only 

 one of an enormous number of souterrains that exist all over 

 central Antrim, including from Armoy or even Portrush district, 

 south, embracing Cullybackey and Ahoghill, Ballymena and the 

 Braid Valley, but I think more particularly the ancient Tuogh of 

 Moylinny, embracing Antrim, Rathmore, Rathbeg, Donegore and 

 Ballylinny, and extending east to Cairncastle, and the historic 

 ground where the Larne and Six-Mile waters rise. 



In Moylinny are three examples ot rock cut caves of a type 

 which I have not met with elsewhere, namely, one beside 

 Rathmore, one beside Donegore Moat, and one in the townland 

 of Ballymartin, close to what is marked in the Ordnance Map as 

 " Site of Fort. " Of these three, Donegore is the only one I have 

 been able to investigate. The entrance lies about 70 yards S.E. 

 from the great mound called the Moat of Donegore. The first 

 chamber is aboijt 5 feet 6 inches high, i r feet long, by 5 feet 6 

 inches wide : in the N.E. corner, about t,\ feet from the li(jor a 

 small tunnel leads in a steep incline upwards to the second 

 chamber, very irregularly shaped, varying from 2 feet to i r feet 

 wide, and from 2^ feet to 6 feet high, all cut out of rock. At the 

 upper end of this chamber the roof is made of rough flags, though 

 the souterrain itself is rock cut all the way. At the upper end the 

 chamber narrows and then divides into two passages in the 

 form of the letter Y, that to the right being only about 8 feel 



