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narrow fillet round the mouth of the bowl. This, and 

 all the others in this group are engraved exactly one 

 half the size of the originals. Fig. 2 was found in the 

 Roman amphitheatre at Dorchester, and is a good ex- 

 ample of the pseudo-Roman pipes ; it is nearly identical 

 with Fig. 3, which was found beneath the foundation 

 of the house No. 319, Strand, which was considered to 

 be about two hundred years old, it has a flat spur, and 

 is capable of resting unsupported. Fig. 4 was dug 

 up in 1814, at Thomond Gate Bridge, Limerick, while 

 sinking a well. It was the only one ever seen by Mr. 

 Croker of that early form bearing any ornament, but 

 that ornament evidently belongs to the latter half of 

 the seventeenth century, for one with the date 1689 

 scratched on it, was found at Fulham in 1829, and is 

 engraved Fig. 5 ; it was found in conjunction with 

 many others of the Dutch form, Fig. 6, with very 

 capacious bowls, and short spurs incapable of being 

 used for support. 



The inferences to be deduced from these facts may 

 be thus given in extracts from authors describing 

 such " finds " : — • 



" On the ridge which commands the fort (Dun- 

 cannon to Wexford), and on which two martello towers 

 now stand, tobacco-pipes Avith exceedingly small bowls, 

 and which the peasants call Cronmellian pipes, are 

 frequently found. They plainly indicate the position 

 occupied by Ireton." * 



* Hall's Ireland, ii., 143. 



