[99] Journal, Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland, vol. vi. (4th Series), p. 384.—W. F. Wakeman.

[100] Cat. Mus. R. I. A., p. 91, No. 83.

[101] Ibid., p. 93.

[102] In Swiss lacustrine sites, stones of the cherry and of the sloe are found together in heaps, mixed with plentiful remains of the seeds of the blackberry and raspberry.

[103] Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland, vol. v. (New Series), p. 119.

[104] Proceedings, R.I.A., vol. vii., pp. 192, 211.—W. Wilde.

[105] Journal Royal. Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland, vol. v. (4th Series), pp. 507-8.

[106] A fine example of a utensil of this kind was discovered at Navan Rath (the ancient Eamhain), the seat of the sovereigns of Ulster down to the year A.D. 332; and a curious account of the value in which bronze cauldrons of this description were held in Ireland in the middle of the fifth century is given by Dr. Reeves in his translation of a portion of the “Book of Armagh,” written in the eighth century.

[107] See Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings, p. 213, fig. 195.

[108] Cat. Mus. R. I. A., p. 533.