[185] _Museum, R.I.A._, No. 259. [186] Also the following articles: a circular stone not unlike the upper stone of a pot-quern; it was perforated in the centre, and decorated at the top. A small whorl of red grit, and a water-worn pebble that may have been used as a net weight or sinkstone (_a_). A whetstone, four inches long (_a_). A curved stone, five inches long, bearing on it some rudely carved devices (_a_). A celt-shaped, smooth, flat stone, about six inches in length, evidently a natural formation (_a_), and much resembling the modern polished stone used by linen weavers as a “rubbing-stone.” Two fragments of pottery, exceedingly rude, one of them unglazed (_a_): the first is portion of a small pipkin, between three and four inches wide, and two and three-quarter inches high, with an indented band round the top; it bears marks of the long-continued action of fire, and is in composition very like a cinerary urn. The articles marked (_a_), appear in Museum, R. I. A., as Nos. 36, 67, 128, 84, 30, 31, 10 and 11. [187] Et est in eodem le tuogh quidam lacus alias stagnum vocatus Loughinchefeaghny in quo est insula similiter fortificata. [188] _Proceedings R.I.A._, vol. vii., pp. 156-7. [189] _Proceedings R. I. A._, vol. vii., p. 155. [190] _Proceedings R.I.A._, vol. vii., p. 154. [191] There were also shears of various sizes; two well-formed needles of bronze; a shoemaker’s awl with blade of bronze and handle of stone; several axes or hatchets; a light spade of wood tipped with iron; an iron sword; a horse-shoe of ordinary size, thicker at the outer edge and without raised heels, but drawn out at the extremities to a great length; many whetstones; knives, very narrow and sharp at the point, but thick on the back; a bronze dish much scored, its diameter fifteen inches, including the rim; a wooden scoop; a large bead and small crescent-shaped piece of glass, which bore marks of having been set as a jewel; several pins of bronze, iron, bone, and wood, varying greatly in shape; the fragments of pottery were evidently the remains of strong, well-shaped vessels; the bones and horns of mammalia were principally those of oxen (of short-horn species), sheep, goat, deer, and dog; there were tusks of the boar, and in one instance the skull of a _Cervus Elephas_ showed that the horns had been sawn off. In the museum of the College of Surgeons, London, is preserved the skull of an Irish deer from which the horns had been similarly cut, and it is said to have been found in that state in the west of Ireland.--_Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. iii., pp. 86, 90; vol. iv., pp. 36, 38.--E. Benn. [192] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. i., pp. 20-2.--E. Benn. [193] _Celtic Scotland_, vol. i., p. 83.