542 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Fig. 180 represents another bronze trumpet molded entire with 

 closed end and lateral mouth hole, flute fashion. It is from Tralee, 

 county Kerry, and was described by Mr, Robert Bay.' It, like tig. 183, 

 Las been broken across the mouth hole and repaired by pouring hot 

 metal around the fracture until it was melted and united. The mouth 



Fig. 170. 



HllONZE ho};n. 



Comity Deny, Ireland. 



^ natural size, 



hole is on the concave portion, while in the other two (figs. 179 and 183) 

 the mouth holes are on the side — that is, midway between concave and 

 convex. 



Fig. 181 represents a bronze horn with rows of spikes at either end, 

 but otherwise without decoration. The ends are open, but the mouth- 

 piece is gone. This instrument was raokled and cast, and the imperfect 

 adjustment of the molds has j)roduced ridges, extending from one end 

 to the other, on the convex and concave sides. It has been broken 

 and mended in ancient times by the process of "burning in," elsewhere 



Fig. 18U. 



UltONZE }HIKN, BROKEN AT THE MOUTH HOLE AND IJEPAIREU. 



Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. 



described. It was part of the "Dowris find," is 24 inches long on the 

 convex side, 2i inches in greatest diameter with circular termination 

 at small end. 



Sir John Evaiis^ reports a bronze trumpet, cast, belonging to the 



' Journal of the Royal Historical and Archreological Association of Ireland, 4th 

 ser., Ill, p. 422. 



-Ancient Bron/e Inipleuiciits, p. 3G0. 



