As might be expected, implements of stone form a conspicuous 

 feature in collections of Irish antiquities, and the Belfast Museum 

 is no exception, the cases containing numerous examples of the 

 prevailing types. The flint implements number close upon a 

 thousand, and include forms that range from rude flakes — pre- 

 cisely similar to those which, found elsewhere, are considered 

 palaeolithic — to arrow-heads of the utmost symmetry of form and 

 delicacy of chipping. There is also a large series of the flints 

 regarded as scrapers ; — and the so-called hollow scrapers, so rare 

 in other parts of Britain, are very well represented here, both in 

 number and variety. The collection of arrow-heads is also good ; 

 all the forms are included, some of the examples being very fine. 

 Flint spear-heads and celts are not so numerous. Of stone axes, 

 or celts, there is a good display, the specimens varying much in 

 size and finish. Stone whorls, sinkers, whetstones, etc., are fairly 

 represented ; — as also various kinds of querns, or hand-mills, by 

 which anciently the corn was ground into meal. 



Note. — The Specimens to which the letter (C B" is prefixed, -viz.: — Bi to £1,135 were 

 presented to the Society by the late George Benn, Esq., of Fortivilliam Park, Belfast. Ihey 

 were found chiefly in the County of Antrim, and are arranged in the wall case, on th* west 

 tide of the room. 



I to 7 unmounted, and Bi to B56, mounted on cards 1 and 2. 

 Rude Flint Flakes, that show no secondary chipping. B12, 

 B21, and B30, are roughly tanged, as if for the purpose of 

 being affixed to hafts. Nos. 8 to 12 unmounted ; — size, i£ to 

 4 inches long. 



8 to 12 unmounted, and B57 to Bioo, mounted on cards 

 3 and 4. 



Flint Flakes, having the same general characters as the pre- 

 ceding, but more or less chipped on the edges — B71 has lateral 

 indentations near the base, as if for securing it to a handle. 

 No. 12 and B72 and B73 are rudely stemmed or tanged. Size, 

 i| to 4^ inches long. 



The flakes referred to above, though rude and unpolished, yet 

 required a considerable degree of skill for their manufacture. 

 They were dexterously struck off pieces of flint by means of 



