114 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 
XXIV.—On Aw anctent Bronze Bracertet or Toraurt PAarrern 
OBTAINED IN Co. Gatway. By W. Frazer, F.R.C.8.1., M.R.LA. 
[Read, November 14, 1881. ] 
Tue handsome little bracelet of bronze, which I am enabled this even- 
ing to show to the Members of the Academy, was given to me a few 
weeks since by Richard A. Gray, Esq., County Surveyor for South 
Dublin. Our Museum has obtained from this gentleman large and 
valuable additions of numerous objects of antiquarian interest, and he 
has placed antiquarians under deep obligations for the quantities of 
such articles secured by him for our benefit when, many years ago, he 
was engaged under the Board of Works in the excavations and deepen- 
ing of the Rivers Boyne and Shannon. I do not hesitate to say that 
only for the personal interest he took in their preservation many of 
our prized Irish antiquities would have been destroyed or thrown 
aside, and utterly lost to this Museum and to Archeology. 
The bracelet now in my possession was originally purchased by 
Mr. Gray’s father, Dr. Gray, in the Co. Galway, several years since, 
and, similar to too many of our Irish antiquities, the history and cir- 
cumstances of its discovery are altogether unknown—probably it 
turned up in cutting a bog, or in the bed of some stream, and then 
