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ornament, and weighs 2 dwts. 19 grs. It was purchased from Mr. Do- 
negan, who can give no account of the circumstances under which it was 
discovered, for. . . . - £0150 
Five gold armille, weighing together, 3 ozs. 9 dwts, 14 grs., and 
purchased from Mr. Donegan, at the rate of £4 per ounce. They formed 
a part of four pairs of bracelets, viz., one plain, one twisted, and two 
flat; discovered in a field belonging to a man named Byrne, in the 
townland of St. John’s, near Castledermot, county of Carlow. The land 
had been previously tilled, and the clay was soft. The articles were all 
rolled together, much crushed, and bound round with fragments of the 
flat bracelets precisely in the state in which I first exhibited them to the 
Council. In the field in which they were found runs a small stream, on 
which is a shallow called the Battle Ford, and near the place where the 
gold was discovered a large granite rock had recently been blasted, and 
it is conjectured that the gold may have been hidden underneath its 
edge. After a short time the finder sold the lot to a watchmaker in 
Carlow, at very much beneath its intrinsic metallic value. The watch- 
maker proceeded to Dublin, but was unable to procure a purchaser, so 
he left them with a friend, who disposed of them to Mr. Donegan, from 
whom I procured them, and, having restored the broken pieces of the flat 
bracelets, with the sanction of the Committee of Antiquities, I procured 
two pair, and one specimen of the unornamented set. I am much in- 
debted to Dr. O’Meara, of Carlow, and the Rev. Mr. Gorman, R. C. C., of 
Castledermot, for the history of all the circumstances attending the 
discovery, but the further particulars of which are unnecessary. Owing 
to the circumstance of there being no proper place yet provided in the 
Museum for the arrangement of the gold articles, numbers cannot be 
attached to them; but as some of them are the only objects of the kind 
that have as yet been exhibited in Ireland, the following description may 
serve to identify them :—One plain, circular, and bearing marks of ham- 
mering. Two of the torque pattern, each composed of a square bar of 
gold, twisted, but left plain at the ends. Two thin, flat bands, plain on 
the inside, and grooved or corded with fine parallel longitudinal lines on 
the outer surface. This form of ornamentation, which is similar to that 
upon the small circular plate of gold described above, would appear 
to have been effected by some pectinated tool. These bracelets, although 
so like, are not matches; their fellows have been disposed of, one to a 
dealer in Dublin, and the other to an English collector. In one of these 
in our collection, the edge is turned over, and deeply grooved on the outer 
side. Cost of four of these, Sie oe SELIG 10 
Ecelesiastical.—A_ copper crucifix, 10 inches long by 6 wide; the 
arms of the cross enclosed within an oval. It is perforated all round 
the edge, as if for attachment to some flat surface, probably a shrine 
or feretory. The figure is antique, draped at the waist with a short 
tunic, a portion of the decoration upon which is still visible. The head 
is surrounded with a mural crown, like those on some of the oldest cru- 
cifixes in the collection, and beneath it is a head-dress falling to the 
shoulders. The orbits are filled with lead. This article is said to have 
