J•JURNi\L OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY crystalline rock and some good examples of hammer swnes and SCI'apers of this matedal. Tw.o pieces of pottery with holes near the rims. Some. Iron Age pottery from ~aghergallain. Isla.nds of Gola, Innishinny and Illanaran - At Innishinny there are good indicaitions of prehistoric man. Flint knives and split pebbles of crystalline rock. On the .Q~her two islands there are numerous shell heaps and sites 1which have not been fully examined. Rutland lsland-E:roded pits containing bones and teeth of various animals. Shells of oyster, cockle and pe.riwinkle. Some hammer stones and pottery. Ma.2"hery-Several hut sites, one of which was bounded by a circle of stones. Some well worked hammer stones and several pieces of flint. broken bronze pins, and a comb decorated with concentric circles. ...Narin and Portnoo - This district yielded a vast amount of ifli'Illt objects w'hen explored by Knowles and others fifiy years ago. As recent as last summer I picked up a variety of flint objects (most· of which ;were never used) and amongst them a partly finished arrowhead. The sites lie between the golf links and the strand. See Bibliography of Donegal. Pairt 11. Lougbros More and Rossbeg -The sands are constantly shifting here and last year a very fine arrow head was picked urp. · Amongst the finds made in this area are. hammer stones, stone anvils. nortion of a bronze cauldron and a stone lined cist. Maghera - DT. Evelyn of Ballymena, Co. Antrim, made a very fine oollection of flint objects from these sandhills. Bundoran. Finner and Coolmore - Knowles acquired over three huncked obiects from this localitv of which only a few <remain in this country. These included arrowheads, borers, scrapers, knives, etc., as well as some pottery. The Stone Age implements we·re made from 255. flint and chert. This district is worthy of an exhaustive survey. Althougn the antiquity of the Shore Dwellings and Sandbill Settlements in County Doriegal affords the greatest harvest to the Archaeologists it is important to point out that the scarcity of foon Age objects is due to the rapid disappearance of that metal when it comes in contact with sea air and sea sand. There is, however, plenty of other evidence available ;Which shows a very intimate continuity between these :primitive settlements and our modern her 'th rernrts. NOTES 1. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiaauries Ireland, (1914). 2. Proceedings of ihe Royal Irish Academy 3rd Series Vol. Vl No. 3. 3. Journal R..S.A.I. Mar. 1911. 4. Jorurnal of the Co. Donegal Historical Society Vol. 1. No. 1 pp 27 /31. 5. The following is a precis of Dr. w,almsley's ·report : The bones found at Dooey, ma:inlv skulls. though they kept their shape, when covered in the grave, were, almost inevitably bound to disi-ntegrate (when removed) due to the drying effect of the air and the eroding effects of the fine sand ·aind salt which had a).ready removed the harder outer ivory surface. By the time they had reached Dr. Wamslev they were disarticulated and the teeth which were of Ivorv consistencv furnished the best clue. Stripiped of its technicalities \the report says that all the bones were human bones buried bv inhumation and not incinerated. (a) Vault of an adult skull aged about 40 years-typical Idsh twe of IMediteraanean ongm with powerful n e c k muscles such as occur in boatmen. Teeth normal, no evidence of disease. •lb) Frontal region with nasal bO'nes of. a child about 3 years. All the milk teeth erupted, first permanent molars in their cry:pts
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