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accidentally broken ; but she saved the other, and brought it safe to 
London, "and gave it to a learned friend, who admired it exceedingly ; 
said the teeth were very remarkable, and the cranium also, being 
of a peculiar shape unknown among our modern races. Of its age, or 
or how long it had been buried, he could offer no conjecture." I 
examined this Island, and saw many fragments of human bones, but 
none entire or worth bringing away. I saw the remains of graves 
lined with thin slabs which appeared to have been covered with 
similar slabs. I was able to make out the ends in one or two cases, 
and found the graves to be between seven and eight feet in length. 
It appeared to me that the graves had been made on the ground for- 
merly used as dwelling-places by the neolithic inhabitants, and that 
they were probably the graves of some later people. Similar graves 
were found a few years ago at Glenarm, which had been made in a 
field strewn with flakes, cores, and other evidences of a prehistoric 
dwelling-place or flint implement manufactory. 
Ballyness, Co. Donegal. 
In the Ulster Journal of Archceology, vol. vi. p. 351, there is an 
account of antiquities found on a part of the shore at Ballyness Bay 
the property of "Wy brants Olphert, Esq., from which sandhills had 
been blown away, leaving exposed to view some confused remains of 
buildings. Upwards of fifty pins and fibulae of bronze were found, 
of which thirteen are figured full size in that Journal. The writer 
says that not the least remarkable circumstance connected with the 
locality is that on the same spot, in which these undoubtedly ancient 
pins and fibulae were found, coins and other articles of recent date 
have been picked up. Among these were coins of Elizabeth, James I., 
Charles I. and II., and William and Mary, together with tradesmen's 
tokens of the seventeenth century. 
I called on Mr. Olphert in September, 1890, and he very kindly 
showed me the articles that had been found ; and he and his daughter, 
Mrs. Kettlewell, gave me all the information they remembered respect- 
ing the various finds. The pins now number over one hundred, and 
are of various patterns. Two of them are shown in figs. 4 and 5, in 
Plate XXIV. The ring in fig. 4 is turned up to show the cross on the 
stem of the pin and the swastika on the head. Eigs 4« and 45 show 
the ornamentation on the top and back of the head of this pin. Besides 
the pins there are many brooches or fibulae, some of which are two inches 
in diameter, but others are very small, being not much over half an inch 
