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tons of the Irish Elk, Ox, and other animals, which, from 
marks on the skulls, had evidently been killed by man. 
Shortly after this, there was found, beneath the stream, a 
perfect skeleton of a man, clothed in skins, the hair outside, 
with a pouch at his side and a belt round his waist. Although 
the skin was very much discoloured, the skeleton and flesh 
were perfect." 
My friend, Dr. Ball, of Dublin, however, thinks the mere 
association of human implements with the bones of the Deer 
is no proof of their having been contemporary, but thus 
accounts for the circumstance. With the ancient Irish, it 
was a well-known mode of fortification to build these Island 
forts in valleys, where a stream ran, surrounded by a 
stockade of wood, and he supposes they would commence 
operations by first driving down the wooden posts or paling; 
into this was then thrown earth from the ditch formed round 
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the whole, together with the marl, accompanied by heads and 
bones of the Giant Deer ; the workmen, however, wrench- 
ing off the horns to enable them to pack closer on the top 
of the mound, upon which a wooden castle was ultimately 
erected. In this would be collected various implements for 
the domestic or warlike use of the inmates, which would 
accidentally or otherwise accumulate in the ditch below. In 
course of time the castle fell by war, fire, or decay ; and, 
finally, by the rotting of the original stockade, the mound 
would crumble and fall down, depositing the Elk bones and 
soil above the implements of human construction. Thus 
they would be eventually found associated, apparently fur- 
nishing conclusive evidence of their co-existence. 
Mr. Richardson states in the Zoologist : — In a letter I 
have received from Mr. Benn, of Ballymena, occurs the 
following passage : — In the collection of the late Mr. John- 
ston, of Down, which has been left by his uncle, an attorney, 
and in which everything was labelled with the accuracy and 
