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end of a piece of bronze flat, and forming 1 the other end into a pin- 

 shaped termination. This pin had been passed through the lobe 

 of the ear and then bent round, the other and fiat end being bent 

 over it. Thus the ear-ring 1 must have been permanently fixed in 

 the ear. Behind the head were two formless pieces of jet. Under 





Fig. 116. 



the body, and covering the bottom of the grave, was a great quantity 

 of decayed wood, the grave having evidently, as in other cases, been 

 floored with that material. 



It would seem probable that in this barrow we have the graves 

 of a man and his wife. The connecting opening- between them 



an engraving of what is evidently an ear-ring, but which has been, probably since the 

 finding of it, flattened out. It is quite plain, and has a loop at the top. I have seen 

 another, a similar one, in the collection of Mr. Welsh, at Dromore. 



