JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY the last fow years. Unfortunately as the erosion is vertical the .middens are only apparent as a strata in the clifts, out of which bones and shells may be plucked before they .fall into the stony gr-ciin which fringes the stranc-i. Near .the pill.box site I took a circular quern from this strata and Captain Hamilton promised to take charge of it if the owner of the land would permit him to bring it to Brownhall. With the cxcsption of the Finner district this portion of the Donegal coast has never been fully examined and from descriptions received ~ocally Wardstown, near Ballyshannon and the coast on each side of Donegal Bay have the remains of numerous settlements. The following is a list of .sites which have been examined in County Doneg·al together with notices of some of the objects found in them. Buncrana - Sandhills between Buncrana and Fahansever.al pieces of flint, neatly dressed flakes: hammer stones: fragments of pottery; top of ·saddle quern. · Kinegar Bay - (near Rathm ullen) primitive hearths consisting of large water worn stones. much ·altered by .fire; shell hea.ps of different varities; rough wedge implements some of which were carefully worked_ No :pottery nor traces of metals. Doagh Beg - Shell heaps; pieces of pottery of a very early type; bone implements. Ooa.gh More-Numerous kitchen middens and stone circles which may have been hut sites. Long Cist grave examined by Dr. 0 Riordain. of University College, Dublin. Gortnlugoge Bay- Cist burial. Glenalla - Hoard of bronze axes. Portsallon - Numerous hut sites corrtainine: shells and bones together with crude instruments. Some coarse pottery. A few hammer stones and a few wor:ked flints. Rosa.Pena - The hotel is 254. built on a :prehistoric settlement. In the summer of 1909 a stone Cist was discovered in the sand -dunes: f.r.ae:ments of pottery; bronze pins-some beautifully decorated: Red Deer's antlers with secondary work on them; ;pottery disks pecular to the locality. ISheephaven- Kno,wles does no't mention the exact locality in which he found Venus Verrucorn: sl;)_ells which are long extinct in the North of Ireland. Amongst the objects which he lists .are .E!lass beads and bronze brooches, a l 7th century comb, Stone Age and Iron Age implements. The parish of Meev:a.gh is extremely rich in archaeological remains. A:t T-ranarossan I have picked up· seyeral piece·s of flint a·nd some more on the earth and platforms which surmounts the very high sandhill w.hich overlooks the Carriga:rt Catholic Church. From Glenree I have e:ot a large collection of bronze ·Pins. some coarse pottery several whet stones, pot boilers, a well Polished stone chisel, and an earlv Iron AJ!.e sickle. Dunfi.!,naghy Fifty s1tt-s "discovered not far from a small strea:m"-sc0rapers, borers, small axes. anvil stone. and some· small pieces of coarse :pottery. Bronze pi-ns. Falc.r;rragh - The National Museum now has some of the bronze needles and a bronze ring which Knowles found in the Sandhills here. Albout a hundred years ago the Wy.brant family of Ballvconnell House had a very la:rge collection of antiquities from these sites. What became of it? Ballyness- Flakes of quartzite, hammer stones, scrapers of chert. shale and felsite. The National Museum now has a pottery cooking vessel of the cranoe: type from here. 1M:aigtherroa.rt.y: Bronze pins. Innishboffin: Bronze brooch f.rom its sand dunes now in the National Museum. Bunbeg and M~ghergallan - Crude implements of local hard
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