PREHISTORIC ART. 



647 



1^ inches in widtli, wound on the outside S])irally from end to end and 



fastened with small brass or bronze nails. It was found in County 



Mayo, 1791, in a turf bog, about 9 feet beneath 



the surface, was perfectly straight and the 



wood sound, but since war])ed out of shape in 



drying. 



Other pieces of wooden horns were found in 1837 

 in a bog at Killyfaddy, near Clogher, County 

 Tyrone. These were made in the same maniiei? as 

 the foregoing, about 28 inches long, 2 inches in 

 diameter, and with dowel tubes which fit to- 

 gether as a flute. (See figs. 18G-191.) AVhen put 

 together they made a single tube 9 feet long and 

 forming about two-thirds of a circle. Kalph Ous- 

 ley, Esq., describes the foregoing objects in the 

 Transactions of the Koyal Irish Academy,' where 

 he announced the opinion that these, especially 

 the first, were "trumpets, called in Irish tales and 



romances 'Benwowen or Buabhal, a military instrument used only 

 in emergencies, and capable of i)roducing a most tremendous sound.'"' 



/ 



Fijr. 190. 



DETAIL UF ,JOININ(i OF THE 

 EDGES OF FIG. 189. 



(a) interior, showing the 

 rivet lieads ; (6) exterior, 

 .showing where riveted 

 down. 



Fig. 191. 



HOLLOW BRONZE TUBE. 



Length, 2U iuclies; diameter, 1^ inches; fragment, po-ssibly a iniusical instrument. 



Wilde, Catalogue of Antiquities, Royal Irish Academy, p. 4;l2, fis,'. 360; and Evans, Amieut Bronze Imiilements, p. ;«7, flg. 43S. 



SCOTLAND. 



Bronze horns.— Yig. 192 is a bronze trumpet, molded and cast, found 

 in Ayrshire, Scotland, in the year 1051, and is known as the Capring- 



Fig. 192. 



THE "CAPBINGTON HORN," BRONZE, MOLDED. 



Length, 25 inches. 



Tarbolton, Ayershire, Scotland. 



Proceedings Society o£ .\ntiquaries, Scotland, XII, \i. Mi^t. 



' Volume IV. 



-Sir W. R. Wilde, Catalogue of Antiquities of the Royal Irish Academy, I, p. 244. 



