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one or more of the appertaining rubbers, are preserved in the 
Dublin Museum, and are assigned by Mr. Wilde, in his 
admirable catalogue, to an age anterior to that in which 
Querns came into use. The one I have, when found, had the 
rubber or muller with it, which was described to me by the 
finder as like " a mason's mell but most unfortunately it 
was lost before I heard of it. 
5th. That the remains of flint fabrics — and I have been 
remarkably fortunate in lighting upon two deposits of con- 
siderable extent, which can scarcely be regarded in any 
other light than as suggestive of a local manufactory — shew 
a very sufficiently rude state as connected with a supply of 
cutting or penetrating implements. 
6th. That the still existing traces of human residence, 
sufficiently numerous and intensely interesting (though I fear 
I have no space to notice them otherwise than thus in 
passing), are, without any exception, such as to speak very 
intelligibly of a period when the constructive arts and 
appliances were of a remarkably low grade : the residences 
in question having been merely circular excavations in the 
ground ; few of them with any pretence even of an inner or 
lining wall ; presenting in most instances no sign of any- 
thing like symmetrical arrangement ; the only proofs of the 
presence of the genius which culminates in the architect 
having been supplied, probably, by the presence of a low 
conical roof of rough poles overlaid with ling, rushes, and 
sods. 
7th. And I must also here recall attention to what was 
advanced above concerning the entrenchments, camps, or other 
earthworks, which are met with so commonly throughout 
the district, and to the inferences furnished by them as to 
the equipment of those who made and manned them. 
I am quite aware, that there is a failure of strict logical 
or positive proof to connect the construction of the earth- 
