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172 From the débris of a series of refuse pits on the first mentioned were dug up 150 querns (hand-mills), charred corn, glass beads, bronze fibulæ and rings, a bronze swordsheath, spindle-whorls, long-handled combs, loom-weights, bone and horn needles, human and animal bones, etc.

The fine collection of Late Celtic objects from Stanwick includes bridle-bits, horsetrappings, fragments of repoussé work, portions of iron chain-mail, a sword-sheath, bronze fragments with traces of enamel on them, tyres of chariot wheels, etc.

Mount Caburn, described by General Pitt-Rivers as a Late Celtic entrenchment of pre-Roman times, contained, in addition to a number of relics similar to those from Hunsbury Camp, three ancient British coins of tin.

Very significant are some implements and weapons of war found on the crannog of Lisnacroghera, Ireland. Here the entire military equipments of at least four men, consisting of shields, iron swords with bronze sheaths, lances with long wooden handles and bronze mountings, and other objects—all beautifully decorated with Late Celtic designs and workmanship—were by some unknown fate associated in a peat-bog with the usual promiscuous objects of an Irish crannog.

In 1865 a remarkable discovery was made in one of the chambered cairns on the Loughcrew Hills, Co. Meath, which has puzzled