78 Annual Meeting. 



ments, bones, and rude flint implements found by him in a newly 

 discovered sandhill settlement at Portrush. 



The office-bearers for the new session were elected as 

 follows : — 



Chairman, Sir Charles Brett. 



Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Henry Riddell, M.E., M.I.M.E. 



Hon. Secretary. Mr. Henry C. Lawlor, M.R.I. A. 



Executive Committee, in addition to the foregoing (ex- 

 officio) — Professor Gregg Wilson, D.Sc, Mr. Arthur Deane ; 

 (elected) Mr. R. S. Lepper, M.A., F.R.Hist. Soc, Mr. Alec 

 Wilson, J.P., M.R.I.A., Mr. W. B. Burrowes, Mr. T. Edens 

 Osborne, Mr. John Stevenson, the Rev. William Adams, M.A., 

 Mr. Fergus Greeves, Mr. Robert May. 



The Hon. Secretary of the Section, Mr. H. C. Lawlor, read 

 the following reports : — 



I.— INVESTIGATION OF CRANNOG IN THE TOWNLAND 

 OF BALLYGOLAN. 



At the extreme north-west corner of the townland of 

 Ballygolan (the place of the forked streamlet) is a saucer shaped, 

 somewhat marshy hollow in which rises a prolific spring. A 

 channel cut to carry away the water from the spring has drained 

 the hollow where once was a deep lake. A natural ridge of 

 gravel soil retained the water of the lake on its eastern side, 

 while on its western side the steep slopes of the Cavehill and 

 Colin Ward begin to rise. 



The farm in which the site of this ancient lake is situated is 

 now known as Hazelwood and is bounded on its eastern side by 

 the Antrim Road and on its northern side by the Bellevue 

 Gardens. 



A little to the east of the centre of the hollow is a circular 

 knoll some four feet higher than the surrounding ground, seventy 

 across at its base, sixty at the summit. The knoll is flat topped, 

 and no foss or vallum surround it as in the great majority of 

 raths, 



