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The Rath of Dreen 



The greater i)art of the pottery was of the crude class 

 to which ill former papers I have given the name " Souterrain 

 type," purely hand made, without ornamentation, not made on 

 the potters' wheel, not finished with any surface paste, but 

 evidently baked in intense heat, and differing in this respect 

 from the cinenary urn or bi'onze age potteiy, which disjilays less 

 evidence of fusion by great heat. 



There were fragments of a large number of different 

 vessels, but out of the whole collection we were only able to 

 reconstruct, almost completely, one, and jjartially another. Both 

 of these were in the loose black soil of the hut sites. The first of 

 these is a cup or tumbler, without any sign of soot ; it is crudely 



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