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borders of the small openings or double eyes in the blade are inlaid with 

 bronze ; and it has a sort of fret-form round the base. Some narrow spears 

 are also known which cannot be assigned to a definite period ; their La Tene 

 aspect is apparent ; and they are probably not later than the first few 

 centuries a.d. Fig. 3, found in the Eiver Boyne, is an example of these. 

 It has some eye-centres at the base of the blade, set some with red and some 

 with yellow enamel ; also the fine long spear, tig. 4, found in the bed of a 

 stream at Mulloughmore, county Eoscommon. 



Fio. 1 

 La T&ne Spear-head, 

 Ireland (|). 



Fio. 2. 

 Corofin, Co. Clare 

 (J)- 



Pio. 3. Fio. 4. 



Kiver Boyne Mulloughmore, 

 (J). Co. Eoscommon (J). 



The remarkable La T^ne crannog of Lisnacroghera, county Antrim, has 

 yielded quite a series of objects consistently La Tene in character. These 

 include four sword-sheatha ; three are at Belfast; and one from the Green- 



