trast with the rest, both as to material and workmanship ; and if 

 we are to judge of their ages from those circumstances, No. 30 

 must be very ancient. 



" Eespecting the specimens presented from my own collection, 

 I regret I can give little valuable information, as that received from 

 the persons I got them from may not be correct, and was confined 

 in most cases to the name of the locality where they were obtained ; 

 however, such as it is, I have marked it on each. 



" It may be interesting to know, that the large sword, No. 37, 

 was found in the same townland as seven golden balls already in the 

 Academy, viz. Tumna, in the county of Eoscommon. 



' ' I can form no opinion as to what the two tubes, Nos. 43 and 44, 

 are; but the smaller one contains a piece of timber, which was in it 

 when found, and which fitted it completely. 



" I am, dear Sir, yours faithfully, 



" Richard A. Gray. 

 " William T.Mulvany,Esq., Com- 

 missioner of Public Works, 

 Custom-house, Dublin" 



[Memorandum to accompany the Antiquities sent %Mb.Fraser.] 



" Castlebernard District. 



" Some of the antiquities found in this district were got in the 

 valley of the Camcor River ; the others in the valley of the Pass 

 Stream, a small tributary of the former. 



" The greater part of the valley is composed of alluvium brought 

 down from the Slievebloom Mountain. As a proof of the great 

 extent to which the alluvium has been deposited, even within a 

 comparatively recent period, may be instanced the finding of the 

 remains of a small mill, imbedded in the sand and gravel, at the 

 junction of the Kilmaine Eiver with the Camcor. Portions of the 

 walls were found, forming an irregular figure about 13 feet by 1 1. 

 In one end was found what appeared to be the opening for the axle 

 of the water-wheel ; and just opposite to it, on the outside, the 

 timber-head stock framing for the support of the gudgeon. The 

 top of this framing, and consequently the axle of the wheel, was 

 about nine feet below the present surface of the land. This old 



