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unusual, though it does not appear to me impossible ; I hardly believe, however, 

 that they were deposited in, the urn with the burnt bones. I have some 

 difficulty in accepting the suggestion that they were hidden for simple 

 concealment in a burial-mound ; the same superstitious feelings that would 

 restrain possible thieves from interfering with the cache would have restrained 

 the lawful owner of the hoard from tampering with the mound in the first 

 instance. 



Having now laid before the Academy all the evidence that we have been 

 able to gather as to the authenticity and the provenance and circumstances of 

 the find, I come to a description of the objects themselves. 



The Torque. (Plate XIX, 4.) 



According to the information obtained by Canon Greenwell, there were 

 three torques in the hoard. Of these, one only has been brought to our 

 notice and acquired by the Museum. 



It is a twist of a single flat ribbon of gold, that has been beaten out 

 from a bar 1 foot 5| inches in length. The ends of the bar are recurved, and 

 end in hemispherical knobs. The weight of the object is 2 oz. 14 dwt. 9 - 6 

 grs. It is of a quite ordinary pattern. 



The Bracelet. (Plate XIX, 4.) 



This object is a bar of gold, pointed at each end and swelling slightly in 

 the middle. The body of the bar is twisted into a screw, not very regularly. 

 There are several bracelets like this specimen in the Eoyal Irish Academy's 

 collection. This example has been straightened, and the ends of the bar 

 have been looped— one end slightly, the other end with a long loop recurved 

 like the conventional shepherd's crook. These loops have been hooked into 

 the ends of the torque, evidently to enlarge its diameter and to make it fit 

 a neck thicker than that for which it was originally intended. Length, 5| 

 inches; weight, S dwt. 8 - 5 grs. 



The Larger Pin. (Plate XIX, 1.) 

 The larger of the two pins is a plain bar of gold of inches long, and 

 pointed at both ends. At about £ inch from the upper end there are 

 signs as though the shaft had been fractured and repaired in ancient times. 

 Immediately above this fracture there is a disc of gold, turned up so as to 

 form a conical cup-shaped head with the concavity upward ; from the middle 

 of the "cup" projects the sharp end of the piD, like a spike, after the 

 fashion of the boss of a shield. There is no ornamentation on the pin except 



