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stick or formed by punctured holes on the walls. There 

 is no colouring save that given by firing and stains. The 

 paste appears in all to contain a mixture of the local slate 

 and quartz, with a good deal of mica, probably from 

 disintegrated granite which would be found in the boulder 

 clay in the neighbourhood. With respect to shape the 

 most notable thing about the vessels is that several of 

 them appear to have had broad overlapping rims or lips 

 (Fig. 4 on fig. 11), not a common type in the Isle of Man, 

 and some also median bands and grooves. On the floor of 

 one of the huts we found remains of a couple of small 

 earthen vessels similar in colour, material and style to 

 those met with in the cists. 



It may be added, since the work in 1893, we have 

 found further examples of flints and pottery in a couple 

 of other huts excavated in 1896 with a view to the visit of 

 the British Association that autumn. These pieces 

 included some mediaeval glazed pottery and fragments of 

 a clay figure, including the greater part of a small mask 

 of the human face. These were at a higher level than the 

 ancient floor, and may be taken as an indication that some 

 of the huts were occupied on into historic times. 



The flints obtained have already been enumerated. 

 The arrow heads were all of the same type, leaf shaped, 

 showing secondary working and careful finish (Fig. 2 on 

 fig. 11). Two are worked on both faces, the third, which 

 has lost its point, is worked only on one face. The knives 

 are all of the same type, the flat face left intact, the convex 

 trimmed by secondary working on one edg*e only. The 

 largest measures 2fJ long by 1 T V broad and f thick. 



The scrapers are small and rudely made. One of 

 yellow flint measuring 1^ inch by 1 inch and T 5 e thick has 

 the bulb of percussion at the broad end, the edges which 

 are sharp and narrow are rounded to a point, and only 



