. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . versed the specimen anddrilled another hole. These three ornaments have the appearance of having been used asear pendants. The shell portion is nearly flat and retains its pieces of shell belong to the species Haliotis splendens Eve. A collection of objects belonging to prehistoric man, three hundredand twenty-four in number, were received (accession 19,249) from F. Johnson, Holy wood, County Down, Ireland. Mr. Johnson inhis communication gives an elaborate description of their discovery,with th
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . versed the specimen anddrilled another hole. These three ornaments have the appearance of having been used asear pendants. The shell portion is nearly flat and retains its pieces of shell belong to the species Haliotis splendens Eve. A collection of objects belonging to prehistoric man, three hundredand twenty-four in number, were received (accession 19,249) from F. Johnson, Holy wood, County Down, Ireland. Mr. Johnson inhis communication gives an elaborate description of their discovery,with their position, locality, and association. A new road was in courseof construction during August, 1885, on the town land of Ballymenoch,in his neighborhood, County Down, Ireland. He supervised the the men cut through a mound of sand a cave 20 feet long by 3 feetwide and about 3 feet high was exposed which led to an oval chamber14 by 7^ by 6 feet high. At its farther end, and to the right, anotherIjassage leads to a second chamber 9 by 6 by 6 feet high. (Fig. 1.). Fig. 1. It was evidently an ancient habitation of man. It was constructed ofbowlder stones rudely piled into a wall and arched over as indicated inthe section, the whole being embeddedin the sand and covered by the mound.(Fig. 2.) In this cavern he found thefollowing variety of implements or weap-ons (the numbers are from the MuseumCatalogue), rude axes (136898), celts(136899), wedge, double celts (136900,136901), and what he calls a stone lamp,though possibly a mortar (136879), sevenH. Mis. 142, pt. 2 9
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