[236] Wakefield’s _Account of Ireland_, vol. i., p. 94. [237] _Proceedings R. I. A._, vol. ix., pp. 176-9.--H. B. Trench and G. H. Kinahan. [238] Omitting the ideal restoration, fig. 213 is reproduced from a Paper by R. J. Ussher and G. H. Kinahan, as is also fig. 212. [239] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, October, 1879. _Proceedings R. I. A._ (2nd Series), vol. ii., December, 1880.--R. J. Ussher and G. H. Kinahan. [240] Lyell’s _Principles of Geology_, vol. ii., p. 164. [241] _Ancient Bronze Implements of Great Britain and Ireland_, p. 436. [242] In the Museum, R. I. A., Nos. 297 to 302, are stone celts from this crannog, and amongst the miscellaneous bone articles Nos. 1 to 4, and 18, are bone hafts or handles, one of them stained black, and ornamented by spiral and interrupted grooves. There are two horn tines, artificially shaped, and No. 40 is a shank-bone of a sheep or goat, stained black, highly polished, and perforated at one end. Besides the celebrated bronze shield described (_ante_, p. 71), the following antiquities are recorded as having been discovered in this site:--“A long, narrow, spear-head of bronze, in excellent preservation, the socket--circular in form--measuring nearly twenty-three inches in length, and two one-eighth inches in breadth at base of blade, along which there is a ridge with a feather edge running into flat compressed loops at the junction of blade and socket. A bronze spear-head, slightly defective in socket, but blade perfect; it was found with a portion of the charred handle remaining in it. A very small dagger-blade of bronze, with wide notches in the handle-plate. A bronze tube, probably the ferrule-end of a spear, and having a rivet-hole.”--_Cat. Mus., R. I. A._, pp. 487, 507-517. [243] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. v. (4th series), pp. 336-9.--W. F. Wakeman. [244] _Proceedings, R. I. A._, vol. ix., pp. 172-176.--G. H. Kinahan. [245] The “finds” here were unimportant, they consisted of a polishing-stone; a dart or arrow-head formed of the carboniferous sandstone of the district; a few sea-shells; some charred bones, principally those of the cow, sheep, pig, and goose--the latter very numerous; hazel nutshells; pieces of chert, off some of which chips seemed to have been struck; small round pebbles of white quartz.--_Proceedings R. I. A._, vol. x., pp. 31, 33.--G. H. Kinahan. [246] The “finds” on Reed Island were, a whetstone, and fragments of another; a slab of sandstone (probably the hearth); a piece of iron, seemingly portion of some cutting instrument; a quantity of wood-ashes; a circular wooden _noggin_, with a small round handle; the handle of another vessel; some bright-red colouring matter, rolled up in a piece of birch bark. Near the outside piles were bones of the ox, sheep, and pig, all very much broken and gnawed.