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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
In March, 1748, while some ploughmen were tilling lands upon Carne, the estate of Keedah Geoghagen, esq; about seven miles west of Mullingar, in the county of Westmeath, the plough, cutting through a sandy hillock which lay in the middle of the field, turned up a flag stone, about four feet long and three broad. Underneath they discovered a grave, or rather ossuary, to which this stone had served as a cover. The bottom, sides, and ends of the grave were composed each of a single slab. Within were deposited the bones of a human body, but of a size greatly above the common proportion of men.
page 33 note [a] See Plate I. Fig. 3.
page 34 note [b] History of Ireland, p. 146.
page 34 note [c] P. 248.
page 35 note [d] Berch, in his account of the Swedish Womens Dress, under the articie Rings.
page 36 note [e] See the figure, plate II. This however differs from the drawing in the minute book, V. 141, where are strokes to express twenty-two folds.
page 36 note [f] See Harris's edit. of Ware, p. 65. Mr Catherwood, a goldsmith in Ireland, shewed the society 1755 a more perfect breast-plate of the above sort, and informed them that the other gold instruments with the cups were very common. Another sent to the society 1747 was found on the lands of Mr James Commins about four feet deep, in making a ditch near a place called Reyshole, in the west part of the coast of Clare. A similar plate seems to have been found in Cornwall, near the circus in Penrith hundred. It weighed 2 oz. 4. dw. 6 gr. was enriched with a narrow border, and finished with an inch and half of the extremities with lace work, but faintly executed, supposed to have been worn by the arch druid. Letter from Mr. Price to Dr. Heath of Harrow, Feb. 6, 1783. A. S. minutes.
page 37 note [g] Borlase, Antiq. p. 261. The Crescent was among the more honourable badges of the Druid order; and from the moon, at six days old, they regulated the beginning of their months, years, and ages, every thirtieth year; so that the moon was of constant and especial note among the Britains.
page 38 note [h] The original is in the Ashmolean Museum, attested by Charles Hopkins, major John Mould.
page 38 note [i] Plate I. fig. 5.
page 39 note [k] See plate III. fig. 5.
page 39 note [l] Plate I. fig. 4.
page 39 note [m] Plate I. fig. 6.
page 39 note [n] See plate III. fig. 1.
page 40 note [o] Such an one was shewn from Sir Hans Sloane's collection 1740. Mr. Brereton exhibited Feb. 10, 1774, half such a bow with its cup, weight five ounces and a quarter, found the preceding summer in a field near the Lizard point, where are remains of a very ancient building said to have been a chapel.