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the characteristic Irish bronze pins of primitive manufacture, having a 
ring attached to its upper part ; this was broken by the workmen when 
found, probably to try whether it was made of gold; it is such a pin 
both in shape and material as men and women were in the habit of 
using to fasten their garments. This pin (Fig. 5) was discovered lying 
on the level of the original soil, about twenty feet to the south of the 
great heap of human bodies, and not near to any skeleton, in a place 
where it appears to have been dropped and lost. 
A simple ring of bronze was discovered 7m s¢tu upon the finger of 
a skeleton, and another made of bronze wire twisted into an ornamen- 
tal pattern, having a rude resemblance to two interlaced snakes 
(Fig. 6), was got by Dr. Todhunter, also from off the bone of the finger 
it encircled. 
An iron ring was obtained by Dr. Macalister and myself, still re- 
maining around the upper part of the humerus of a young female. 
And a second ring of rather smaller size was brought to me a few 
days afterwards by the workmen who found it when digging up some 
bones ; they likewise got a thin bronze ring that measured about two 
inches in circumference. All these consisted of simple thin rings of 
metal. 
A whorl of baked earthenware, such as used to be employed for 
spinning, and of which an illustration is given (Fig. 7), was picked up 
during the excavation; it has a pretty and peculiar modification of a 
well-known Etruscan and Greek pattern ornamenting its surface. In 
