MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN". 77 



bone. Some of these remains may possibly have been of 

 Bronze Age, the platform having been apparently occupied 

 for a lengthy period.* No token of village life was dis- 

 covered, and the place may have served only as a tempo- 

 rary camping ground from time to time. 



A somewhat similar floor was discovered in 1899 by 

 the Eev. J. Quine on the left bank of Grlen Wyllin, 

 Michael. Great numbers of flint implements have been 

 found here — flakes, scrapers, awls, arrow tips ; also 

 hammer-stones showing signs of use, and differing some- 

 what in type from those at Ramsey. Though no hearth- 

 stones nor hut foundations have been met with, the 

 presence of " fire-holes " would seem to show signs of 

 habitation. 



At Rhewyllin, Port St. Mary, Mr. F. Swinnerton 

 discovered another Neolithic floor in 1900, with abund- 

 ance of shells, decayed human bones, broken hammers, 

 implements of quartz, flint, and slate ; arrows, flakes, 

 chips and scrapers. t At the base of the Alfred Pier, Port 

 St. Mary, Mr. Swinnerton had previously found similar 

 remains of a camping ground during the excavations made 

 in forming the roadway. Here he met with decomposed 

 human bones and teeth, bones of rabbit or hare ; limpet, 

 periwinkle and dog-whelk shells ; a flint arrow-head, 

 scrapers, flakes, and awls, besides some fragments of 

 pottery which he took to be remains of cooking vessels. 

 On this floor were several cists formed of large slabs set 

 on edge, capped originally by a covering stone, typical 

 examples of Neolithic burials (fig. 5). 



Though the " floors " referred to show no traces of 



habitations, we have in places examples of " Hut-circles," 



or the foundations of primitive dwellings, similar to those 



met with elsewhere and identified as belonging to this 



* Yn Lioar Manninagh, I., 2, 262. f Yn Lioar Manninagh, III.. 635. 



