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(D) Several fragments of cooking vessel of exactly the same 

 material and design as the large cooking vessel found in Donegore, 

 so like as to suggest its having been made by the same potter. 



(E) Fragments of the usual very coarse and crude, purely 

 hand-made unornamented pottery, of wliich the bulk of Souterrain 

 pottery consists. 



These evidently suggest periods far apart ; the iron handle 

 may belong to any of these periods. The remains, for the 

 reasons I have mentioned, were not found in layers on the 

 floor, indicating any order or strata of their comparative ages; 

 they were in a confused heterogeneous mud bank formed by 

 the flooding of the cave. 



The bone remains were exceedingly decayed, and except for 

 a few teeth of pigs and oxen, could not be identified. 



In the parish of Kilbride, less than half a mile from Cogry 

 Mill, are two Souterrains of the rude built type, which I have 

 for want of a better name classified as the Co. Antrim type, to 

 distinguish them from the much more refined and evidently more 

 modern Souterrains, built of dressed stones, or small stones 

 selected for size and shape, found chiefly in South County Down, 

 but also occurring, though somewhat rarely, elsewhere. One of 

 the Kilbride Souterrains I have been able to examine thoroughly, 

 through the kindness of the proprietor, Mr. Adam McMeekin, of 

 Cogry House. Fortunately this Souterrain, unlike the majority^ 

 seems almost entirely to have escaped the fate of so many others, 

 — destruction by the hands of the modern tillers of the land, 

 the wanton mischief of the passer by, floods or by the innocent 

 mischief of wild animals. It remained practically untouched, as 

 when vacated by its last residents, probably in the 7th or 8th 

 century, if not earlier. 



Although it consists of only one room, this room in its 

 perfect structural condition, together with the remains preserved 

 under its floor, and the sanitary ar-rangements of its design, seems 

 the most interesting specimen, in many ways, of a complete 

 underground dwelling-house that I have as yet examined. 



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