Coffey — Spea7'-heads of the Bronze A ge found in Ireland. 505 



Public Library, Belfast, Grainger collection : 



Looped (Class II.), 32 



Transitional (Class III), .... 2 



Leaf-shaped (Class I.), .... 20 



Eelfast Museum : 



Looped (one primitive and decorated), 



(Class II.), .... 14 

 ,, Leaf-shaped, .... 1 



15 



Transitional (Class III.), .... 1 

 With apertures and side projections, 



(Class IV.), 2 



"With large apertures (Class IV.), . . 1 



Leaf- shaped (Class I,), . . . „ 6 



Mr. Eobert Day, of Cork, has kindly placed in my hands the MS. 

 Catalogue of his collection, from which I extract the following 

 figures :^ — 



Looped (two primitive) (Class II.), . . 20 

 ,, Leaf-shaped, .... 5 





— 25 



Transitional (Class III.), .... 



3 



Leaf-shaped (Class I.), . 



12 



Leaf-shaped (with segmental apertures). 





(Class IV.), 



2 



The Kilkenny Museum contains, according to the MS. Catalogue, 

 but seven spear-heads. Of these I have not particulars. 



The Catalogue of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, 

 at Edinburgh, includes 89 spear-heads from Ireland. Dr. Anderson, 

 the curator, has very kindly furnished me with the following details, 

 omitting broken, and therefore indetermiuate, specimens : — 



Looped (Class II.), 44 



Transitional (Class III.), .... 3 



With apertures and side projections (Class IV. ), 1 



,, Segmental openings, .... 1 



Leaf-shaped (Class I.), .... 27 



1 A fine leaf -shaped spear-head in Mr. Day's collection, from Ballina, type figure 

 19, is devoid of rivet-holes. Another from Lough Gur, with plain blade of the 

 type of Class II., has neither loops nor rivet-holes. The blade is decorated with 

 punch-marks or scorings. 



