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restoration of such, requires not only skilled, labour, but also consider- 

 able space, and so it was tbougbt desirable that tbese remains should 

 be deposited in the Royal Irish Academy Mnseum where they would 

 be both housed and cared for. 



(4). Various fragments of Sepidchral Urns. — As in the case of the 

 pottery found in crannoges, so in the cases, which were somewhat 

 numerous, of pottery forming urns found in the various forms of 

 sepulchres discovered outside the bounds of the County of Kilkenny. 



(5). A much-mended Bronze Vessel. — I have been unable to trace 

 the histoiy of this interesting vessel, the 

 shape of which will be best understood 

 from the accompanying figiu'e, from a 

 drawing made by Hiss Simpson. I am 

 indebted to Mr. Coffey for the following 

 measurements: — The height is 12-| inches; 

 the diameter of the mouth varies from 

 IH to 12i inches; the diameter of the 

 base is 5^ inches; greatest diameter at 

 shoulder 12f inches. 



(6). A Necldace of Stone Beads. — 

 Early in 1849, Mr. Shearman, of Ealkenny, 

 exhibited at a meeting of the Eoyal 

 Society of Antiquaries, Ireland, a collec- 

 tion of large jet beads, which appeared to 

 have formed portion of a necklace of large 

 size. These beads had been found about 

 two years previously under six feet of 

 turf-mould in Main Bog near Cullohil, 

 in the Queen's County, and had been 

 thrown up while digging the foundations of a bridge. The beads 

 exhibited were ten in number, somewhat rudely formed, imperfectly 

 polished, and of various sizes ; the prevaiUng form was a flattened 

 oval or egg-shape, two of them had a smaU projection or ridge formed 

 round the extremities of the hole with which they were pierced. 

 The two largest weighed three and a-half ounces each, the smallest 

 weighed 13 pennyweights, 7 grains. The number of beads originally 

 found was said to be eighteen or twenty, but they had been given 

 away fi-om time to time by their original owner ; when found they 

 were not strung together. 



Some will remember the splendid collection of Irish Antiquities 

 exhibited in the Archaeological Court of the 1853 Dublin Exhibition. 



Mended Bronze Vessel. 



