[85] Plate VI.--Nos. 1 and 9 are from Ballinderry; 2, 3, and 4 from Drumdarragh; 6 from Drumsloe; 7 from Kilnamaddo; 8 and 10 from Lagore; 11 and 12 from Ardakillen. [86] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. i. (4th Series), p. 558. [87] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. ii. (4th Series), p. 197. [88] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. vi. (4th Series), p. 374.--W. F. Wakeman. [89] Quite recently a bronze axe-head, now in the writer’s possession, was supposed by its peasant discoverer to be “_rale goold_”--and it was not till after repeated failures to effect sale of his “find” as gold that he could be convinced of the real nature of the metal. [90] See Ardakillen Crannog. [91] Plate IX., Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14 are from Lagore; Nos. 3, 8, 10 from Ballinderry; No. 15 from Lough Gur. [92] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. vi. (4th Series), pp 381-3.--W.F. Wakeman. [93] _Cat. Mus. R.I.A._, pp. 261, 463, 466. [94] pp. 222-3, figs. 224-30. [95] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. vi. (4th Series), pp. 373-379.--W. F. Wakeman. [96] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. i. (4th Series), pp. 463-5.--W. F. Wakeman. [97] “There is a tradition that this lough contains a brazen cauldron full of treasure and guarded by a _piast_ in the form of a serpent. Old people say that some years since a farmer actually saw the vessel, and with the aid of plough harness endeavoured to get it out of the water. The demon guardian, however, was too strong, the tackle broke, and with a horrible hiss the serpent regained his lair, taking the cauldron along with him.”--_Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. ii. (4th Series), p. 319. [98] _Proceedings R. I. A._, vol. i., s. s. 1870-8, p. 155; _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. ii. (4th Series), pp. 118, 122. [99] _Journal, Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. vi. (4th Series), p. 384.--W. F. Wakeman. [100] _Cat. Mus. R. I. A._, p. 91, No. 83. [101] _Ibid._, p. 93. [102] In Swiss lacustrine sites, stones of the cherry and of the sloe are found together in heaps, mixed with plentiful remains of the seeds of the blackberry and raspberry. [103] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. v. (New Series), p. 119. [104] _Proceedings, R.I.A._, vol. vii., pp. 192, 211.--W. Wilde. [105] _Journal Royal. Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. v. (4th Series), pp. 507-8. [106] A fine example of a utensil of this kind was discovered at Navan Rath (the ancient _Eamhain_), the seat of the sovereigns of Ulster down to the year A.D. 332; and a curious account of the value in which bronze cauldrons of this description were held in Ireland in the middle of the fifth century is given by Dr. Reeves in his translation of a portion of the “Book of Armagh,” written in the eighth century.