Identifier: journalofroyalso506roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
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Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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t. Around and between them was a mass of vegetablemould—the remains chiefly of decayed brushwood. I am unableto say whether the stakes were set in lines or circles.I found here a stone or two of the sloe or cherry. Beforeremoval from their ancient bed in the mud the stakesaveraged about three inches in diameter, but, in drying,notwithstanding treatment with alum, they shrank consider-ably. No tool or other relic of man was, as far as I know,found here. I am bound, however, to explain that I did not hearof the excavation till it had proceeded to the lowest (mud) stratum.Later on, indeed, I did extract some piles from their places in thesides of the shaft. The fourth, or shell, stratum, seems to indicatea pre-crannog settlement on the spot—an occupation by a colonyof oyster-eaters which had apparently outgrown the age of stone. The excavation was, unfortunately, on so small a scale that itcan hardly, perhaps, be claimed to establish more than very strong Plate XVI) (To face page 181
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AN ANCIENT BRONZE CRUCIFIX. MISCELLANEA. 1S1 probabilities. Future sinkings for foundations, &c, in the samelocality will, I trust, be carefully watched and reported on by com-petent observers. P. Power. An Ancient Bronze Crucifix.—The excellent photo here repro-duced will convey a good idea of a hitherto undescribed crucifixwhich I saw, some little time since, at a silversmiths in Cork,whither it had been sent for repair or alteration. The objectshistory, as far as I have been able to gather, is somewhat asfollows: —The crucifix was preserved for generations in a farm-house near Mourne Abbey, Co. Cork, where the tradition was, andis, that it originally belonged to the Commandery of the Hospi-tallers at that place. Of late, years the relic has come intopossession of a secular priest, whose name I have no permissionto mention, and who, in any case, is unknown to me, though hehas very kindly furnished me with the accompanying photograph. Both cross and figure are of bronze. Port

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