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The supposed helmet-crest figuied by Sir William Wilde (No. 2372) 

 is composed of bronze, coated with white metal, supposed to be fiudruine ; 



Fic. 15 (5). Fio- Hi (I). 



the spirals on the limbs shown in the cut are not repeated on the 

 other side. It was evidently intended to stand upright, as its base 

 is pierced alternately on each side with a vertical hole (fig. 16). 

 The small axe is coated in a similar manner (fig. 15); it measures 

 5g^ inches in length ; its lower end, of which it has lost a portion, is square. 



Eleven glass Ixjads were found at Kihiiainham, with iron weapons ; two 

 of ihem are dark blue, with spirals and lattice-patterns of liglitcr blue, 

 and the lai-gest is made of light green glass, with a number of small circular 

 holes on its external surface, into which were placed studs of yellow enamel. 

 At Kilmaiuham a lai-ge boss of black glass (fig. 17) for calendering or 

 smoothing linen was found, with Danish weapons. A similar glass boss is 

 figured by Kygh (No. 446). It was fovmd in a tumulus in Norway. 

 Pio. 21 t^). 



F.o. 17 (i). 



3 Fig. 19 (i). 



iO(i). 



A number of small wooden beads, covered with thin glass, joined together 

 in straight lengths of four and five, were found at Island-bridge (fig. 18). The 

 manufacture of these beads is very peculiar ; the base is wood and very 

 fragile ; they are covered with a thin coating of glass. They are probably 



