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bones would in the course of time present a similar appearance. As I 

 got all the bones which were contained in this jar when discovered, it 

 is certain there were not one-fourth — perhaps far less — of the bones of 

 a human being in the vessel, though amongst them were portions of 

 several different parts of the skeleton, and these all broken into pieces, 

 few of which exceeded an inch or two in size. Amongst them, aided 

 by my friends, Professor Traquair and Dr. Macalister, I recognised three 

 portions of human skull, through one of which ran a line of suture 

 (probably the lambdoidal), the ungual phalanx of a toe, and a fragment 

 of a second similar bone ; also the ungual phalanx of a finger, the fang 

 of a human tooth, a bicuspis which we believe belonged to a lower jaw, 

 a portion of the head and neck of a thigh bone, a piece probably of the 

 ischium, a fragment of the orbit, half the lower articular end of the 

 fibula, and some scaly laminae of ribs, with detached portions of bone 

 that seem to belong to a tibia. There were, further, fifteen small frag- 

 ments of bone, not human, and which we consider referrible to a dog ; of 

 these we can identify a portion of a vertebra, parts of a rib, part of the 

 articular end of a tibia, and pieces of a long bone which was probably the 

 tibia ; the rest of the osseous fragments were human, though too much 

 broken up to permit of identification. Mixed with the bones were two 

 pieces of shell — one, a portion of the common oyster ; the other the 

 articulating valve of Lutraria ollonga, a shell that still abounds in the 

 mud banks of Dublin Bay. 



The second earthen vase was described by the workmen as being con- 

 siderably larger sized and thicker ; it is made of coarse materials, imper- 

 fectly burned ; its outer part is reddish, and at least three-fourths of its 

 thickness still black coloured : the fragments that were obtained proved 

 too imperfect to admit of its restoration, with the exception of the neck, 

 of which three- fourths remained, though broken into many pieces ; these 

 form portion of a circle measuring eleven inches in diameter, whilst the 

 neck of the vessel, figured No. 1, was not fully seven and a half inches 

 across ; it would appear that both vessels were formed alike in shape, still 



Fig. 2. Fiir 3. 



Fig. 2 represents a piece of the neck of this jar, measuring about two and a half inches. 

 Fig. 3 is another fragment, about four and and a half inches in length. 



the style of ornamentation was altogether different. Figs. 2 and 3 are 

 wood-cuts taken from photographs of two portions of the neck of this 

 jar; they afford fair representations of the appearance of the outside 

 markings : along the upper edge was a row of v-formed striae im- 



