[256] The following “finds” from Ardakillen are deposited in the Museum, R. I. A.:--Numerous bone pins of various sizes and designs; twenty-two combs or fragments of same; a bone dart, six and a-half inches long; do., five and a-half inches long; do., four and three-quarter inches long; do., five inches long; a curved piece of deer’s horn, hollowed at the base, and another piece slightly longer; a tine of deer’s horn, hollowed at base; numerous harp-pins of bone (one is figured, _ante_, p. 125); a curious ovoid piece of bone, polished (_ante_, p. 105); the leg-bone of a deer, covered with carvings (plate XXXII.); a bronze brooch (_ante_, p. 117); a small slender torque-pattern ring (_ante_, p. 118); a bridle-bit (_ante_, p. 137); several whetstones; a very perfect, thin, narrow rapier-blade, double notches in handle-plate; beads of stone, bone, wood, porcelain, glass, and amber; numerous bronze pins; an oaken water-scoop, with a hollowed-out handle; a wooden mallet; some ogham-inscribed wooden objects.--_Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Assoc. of Ireland_, vol. iii. (4th Series), p. 206.
[257] _Proceedings R. I. A._, vol. v., p. 214. _Cat. Mus., R. I. A._, p. 219.
[258] Unfortunately these remains in the Museum, R.I.A., cannot now be identified.
[259] The report on the skull has been most kindly furnished by A. W. Foot, M.D., Member, Royal Hist. and Arch. Association of Ireland.
[261] _Proceedings, R.I.A._, vol. v., Appendix, lix. _Cat. Mus., R.I.A._, p. 552.
[262] Another name for Glencar lake. This crannog lies within the bounds of the Co. Leitrim. The more ancient name of Glencar, as used by the _Four Masters_, was _Cairthe Mulchean_, i.e. Mulchan’s Pillar-stone. _Gleann-a-Chairthe_, pronounced Glencarna, and _Glen Dallain_, signify the Glen of the Pillar-stone.
[263] _Irish Names of Places_ (2nd Series), p. 7. P. W. Joyce.
African tribes, pile dwellings of, 22-23.
Amber beads, 118, 122, 195, 200 n., 201 n., 205 n., 233 n., 237 n.
Amusements, 36: _see_ chess, counters, discs, games.
Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings: _see_ Munro.
Antrim, county, 33, 35, 37, 44, 45, 48, 58, 110, 120, 121, 124, 141, 170.
Antrim, county, crannogs in, 152-3, 163-177.
Apamæan lake, pile dwellings on the, 18-19.