[247] Other “finds” on Shore Island were, numerous flat stones, bearing marks of fire--evidently ancient hearths; fragments of upper and lower stones of a two-handled quern; a small arrow-head (chert); a small celt; eighteen hones of various sizes; a rubbing-stone; several sling-stones; two pieces of Silurian grit (artificially worked); a large Silurian nodule; part of a clay crucible; a bronze pin with a swivel head; a crozier of bronze inlaid with silver; iron shears, like sheep-shears of the present day, but some of them small and fine; a battle-axe, hatchet-edged on the one side, and spiked on the other; a vessel of hammered iron, that had been used for smelting purposes; a knife set in a rude bone handle; a semicircular knife; a piercer of bone; a cut piece of deer’s horn; a bone handle of an iron instrument; part of a deer’s horn; many heaps of ashes, and hazel nuts. [248] _Proceedings R. I. A._, vol. viii., pp. 412-427.--G. H. Kinahan. [249] _Cat. Mus. R. I. A._, p. 29. _Proceedings R. I. A._, vol. v., Appendix lxi. [250] _Proceedings R. I. A._, vol. v., Appendix lxii. [251] _Ibid._ [252] No special description of the Cloonfree crannogs (2) has been furnished; but the following antiquities, found in or around them, were presented to the Museum R. I. A.:--A small bone spear-head, four inches long; a rude pin, formed apparently of the long bone of a fowl; a boar’s tusk; bronze tweezers; a pin, with ornamental head, carved on two sides; a long pin, with ornamental spike-head; a ring; a (?) buckle; an iron horse-shoe; a fragment, like part of the hilt of a sword; a spike, for butt-end of spear; a pair of tweezers; a small pin, the head bound with bronze wire; two amber beads, one of them flat in shape.--_Proceedings R. I. A._, vol. v., p. 219. [253] _Proceedings R. I. A._, vol. v., p. 208, &c.--Appendix, D. H. Kelly. [254] _Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society_, vol. i., series ii., p. 222.