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Yet a further point of relation 



i^'lG. 9. 



form of the attachment of the hai 

 vessels corresponds with those 

 of the bronze vessels previ- 

 ously referred to, also to the 

 form of the attachment of the 

 handles of the conical bronze 

 vessels found in Ireland of 

 Danubian type, figure 11 (see 

 page 347).^ From the close 

 correspondence of the handles 

 of these three classes of ves- 

 sels, we may conclude that 

 they are not separated by any 

 great difference of time. They 

 may all be referred to the 

 close of the Bronze Age and 

 the beginning of the Iron 



is found in the form of the corru- 

 gation of the inside of the rim 

 of the urn, figure 9 (Petrie Col- 

 lection, Museum of the Royal 

 Irish Academy). This urn be- 

 longs to the same class as the 

 previous ones. It was found 

 in one of the rude stone monu- 

 ments at Carrowmore, county 

 Sligo ; a bronze ring pin is said 

 to have been found with it. 

 This urn appears to be later 

 than the Carrowmore monu- 

 ments, and the pin later still. 

 In the absence of details as to 

 the finding of these objects, we 

 must take the urn by itself. 

 The inside of the rim recalls 

 the corrugated rims of the 

 bronze vessel, figure 10. The 



idles of this latter class of bronze 



Fig. 10. 



^ Found at Derrymacash, Co. Armagh ; described in Journ. E.S.A.I., 5tli ser., 

 ^(/l. 7 (1897), p. 437 ; now in the collection of the Roj'al Irish Academy: height, 

 IJ^ inches; diameter of mouth, 11^ inches; bottom, 1\ inches. 



