Excerpt from Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 8
The fishing-hook with ring has also been made with a view to ornament as well as use, and has a well preserved barbed point.
The little twisted handle has been evidently for a cup or other small wooden vessel, and has two holes on the flattened end to receive little pins or nails.
A small stone celt and iron axe-head of ordinary pattern were also found. But the most interesting relic is the remains of a smelting-pot, made of a composition of lime and bone ashes. A drawing is here given to one-eighth of. natural size to show the form of this crucible. There is a heavy foot-stalk, 5 inches thick and 4 inches high, supporting a bowl 4 inches deep, shaped like a modern champagne-glass. The rim measures 13 inches across, and is half an inch thick at the top, with a lip for pouring out the metal. Some bronze slag still remains in the bottom of the bowl. Goldsmiths' crucibles are to-day made of bone ashes.
The remains of a female elk (megaceros hibernicus) were found on the shore of Lough Mourne a year or so ago when excavating for some drains. The skull measured 18 inches by 10 inches, and the spread of antlers must have been about 7 feet. When first exposed, the skin covered the skull, but it has now mostly fallen off. This elk must have been hunted into the water, or waded in to drink, and sunk in the soft, peaty mud, which acted as a preservative.
The canoe, now preserved in the Museum, was found several years ago. It is 15 feet long and 4 feet wide, with square stern, hollowed out of a solid oak trunk. The blocks for the rowlock-pins, the portions of the sides to which the seats were fastened, and the rests for the rowers' feet, are all cut out of the solid wood. This is the second complete canoe found at Lough Mourne: several fragments of others have also been found.
The following is the report on these crannoges, as presented to the Field Club by F. W. Lockwood, on the 21 November, 1882, the investigations having been made the previous summer:
Sections were run through the crannoges in several directions, and a trench was attempted round the outside, but the mud was too fluid to permit much to be done.
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