FrazER—On an Ancient Bronze Bracelet. thls 
passed from its finder’s hands into the possession of Dr. Gray, who 
knew its value, and preserved it. After his death it was in the pos- 
session of his son, Mr. R. A. Gray, for several years, and he gave it to 
me a few weeks since. 
This bracelet possesses peculiar interest from its shape, which is 
altogether unique. We have numerous bracelets in the Museum of 
this Academy, and many others are figured in the works of writers on 
the bronze ornaments of the Earlier Ages, but none of these corre- 
spond to the pattern of this one. It is, in a word, the perfect minia- 
ture representation of the old Celtic, or Gaulish Torque. Its ends are 
fastened together by the prolongation of one extremity into a simple 
wire, the curved termination of which clasps into a perforated aper- 
ture at the other extremity of the bracelet. 
The ring of bronze itself is decorated with a pattern at once effec- 
tive, simple, and artistic: a triple row of detached semicircular eleva- 
tions of small size run all along its back and either edge from end to 
end for about five-sixths of their extent, the remaining sixth part being 
formed of the prolonged fastening wire. In the modelling of its orna- 
mentation and its form it is, I believe, altogether unique, and it pre- 
sents us with an additional illustration of the great skill and artistic 
ability of the old bronze-workers of Ireland, men who developed and 
executed a class of art objects in a rude age which we to this day may 
regard with admiration and justifiable pride. 
