548 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



tou horn. It is described in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries 

 of Scotland' and in Sir John Evans's Ancient Bronze Implements.^ It 

 is 25 inches in length, and is more curved at the large than at the small 

 end. Its analysis is given in the lattet authority : 



Copper 90.26 



Tin 9.61 



Loss 13 



100. 00 



ENGLAND. 



Bronze horns. — According to Sir John Evans — ^ 



Englisli trumpets of bronze belonging to prehistoric times are of rare occurrence. 

 One found in the River Witliam, Lincolnshire, has been tignred in the Philosophical 

 Transacticms, ' and is nearly straight for the greater part of its length (about 28 

 inches), curving upward near tlie end into an irregularly-shiiped expanding mouth. 

 It has an ornament or crest like a mane along the exterior curve. In form it is not 

 unlike the caruyx, which is brandished by the horseman on 

 the coins of the British princes Eppillus and Tasciovanus,"' 

 and which also appears on some Roman coins and monuments 

 commemorative of Gallic and British victories. The metal 

 on analysis gave copper 88, tin 12, and the tube was formed 

 from a hammered sheet and soldered with tin. It not improb- 

 ably belongs to a period not far removed from that of the Ro- 

 man invasion of this country. 



Another, witli two joints and a perfect mouthpiece, is said 

 to have been found at Battle, Sussex, and has been engraved 

 by Grose. "^^ 



Bells or rattles. — Sir John Evans ' reproduces a bell 

 or rattle "formed of a hollow egg or pear-shaped 

 piece of bronze with a pebble or piece of metal in- 

 side by way of clapper." Fig. 193 represents this 

 object. It is to be noted that this bell bears a great 

 resemblance to the prehistoric ones found in Mexico. 

 Sir John Evans continued his description, which is 

 here given entire because of the frequent sugges- 

 tion made that the Mexican bells were of European 

 manufacture. The only reasons for this belief is their similarity of 

 form and appearance with those manufactured in Europe, and that 



• A'olume XII, p. 565. 



2 Page 362, fig. 445. 



3 Ancient Bronze Implements, p. 363. 



' Volnme LXXXVI, 1796, plate xi; Hone Fer., plate xiii; Arch. .Journ., XVIII. p. 

 150. 

 '^ Evans, "Ancient British Coins," plate in, No. 11, and plate v, No. 10, etc. 

 '•Ancient Armour, plate xiii; Cough's Camden, IV, p. 231. 

 "Ancient Bronze Implements, p. 364, fig. 446. 



Fiff. 193. 



BRONZK BKI.U MOLDED 



Dowris find, Iicland. 



Museiiin of Sdem-eand Art, 



Dulilin. 



Wilde, (■;ital..);ue of AntMi.iities 



Roy.ll Irish Academy, p]i 



M2,fil3, fig. BS.'i. 



