A LETTER from WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, Ej; & 
ROBERT PERCEVAL, M.D. M.R. 1. A. concerning Some 
GOLDEN ANTIQUE INSTRUMENTS, fae in a Bog 
in the County of Armagh. 
Holles-ftreet, 30th Dec. 1791. 
Dear Sire, 
Pursuant to your defire and that of the Prefident Read Jan. 21, 
and fome of the Members of the Royal. Irith Academy, I fend = “7?” 
you drawings of the Antique Inftruments which were found 
in a bog in the county of Armagh, as alfo a defcription of 
them, as nearly as I am able, which inftruments I had. the 
honour of fhewing a fortnight ago at the Academy, 
THEIR | fizes are the fame as reprefented in the drawings ; for, 
in order to make the drawings, they were laid‘on the paper, and 
ferved as guides to the pencil in tracing out the lines, which were 
afterwards corrected and finifhed, the originals being ftill in view. 
You will obferve, that one of thefe inftruments is perfect, but 
that the other is mutilated and broken, and in the operation. of 
breaking it, its form has probably been changed ; for it is pretty 
apparent that they were originally intended for the fame ‘ufe, 
therefore 
