546 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



fig. 186. It is 24^ inches long, 1^ inches in diameter, with four circles 

 of spikes, four spikes in each circle. Sir W. II. Wilde' is of the opinion 



that this instrument served as the 

 handle of a battle-ax or commander's 

 baton or staff. But Sir John Evans^ 

 is of a different opinion. Both he 

 and Mr. Ousley class it as an instru- 

 ment of music. A similar instru- 

 ment, also of bronze, 24 inches in 

 length, found associated with other 

 bronze truraiiets at Dunmauway, 

 County Cork, is in the British 

 Museum.' 



Among the horns belonging to the 

 Museum of Science and Art, Dublin, 

 is one of willow wood, 6 feet 4 inches 

 long, 3i inches in diameter at the 

 large end and tapering straight to 

 the small end, where it is supposed 

 a mouthpiece was fixed, which is, as usual, gone. The piece of wood, 

 originally solid, was split, hollowed out through the center from end 

 to end, replaced and bound together with a strip of brass or bronze 



Fig. 188. 



DETAIL OF ORNATUENTED CA.ST BOSS ON BELL 

 MOUTH OF FIG. 187. 



Diameter, 7^ inches. 



Fig. 189. 



HORN OF HAMMERED SHEET BRONZE. 



Length, 8 feet 5 inche.s. 

 In Museum of Science and Art, Dublin. 



Wilde, Catalogue of Antiquities, Royal Irish Academy, pp. 625, 631, fig. 528, No. 9. 



' Catalogue of Antiquities of the Royal Irish Academy, I, p. 492, iig. 360. 



2 Aucieut Brouze Implements, p. 357, iig. 438. 



3/(iem.,pp.357,358. 



