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other hand, objects are found in association with a socketed celt, the find is 

 placed in the latest portion of that period. 



Though various finds of associated bronze celts have been discovered, it 

 will be seen later that only those belonging to the same or related types 

 have been found together in the same deposit. All the celts included in 

 the first six finds described and figured have been tested with a touchstone, 

 in accordance with the method published by L. Weiss and M. v. Schwarz,' with 

 the result that in every case their composition has been shown to be bronze. 



The finds containing flat celts will be detailed first. In 1840 eleven 

 celts were found in a cist, with some ashes and some bones of deer> 

 in the bed of the Carhan Eiver, .Iveragb, Co. Kerry.- Four of these 

 celts, presented by Maurice O'Connell, Esq., m.p., are in the Academy's 

 collection. They are corroded and patinated ; all are of the same type, 

 showing no trace of a stop-ridge. (Text-figure 1, p. 513.) It is unfortunate 

 that the remaining seven celts have not been preserved, but in the account of 

 the find it is stated that those presented to the Academy were the largest 

 and most remarkable. 



Four flat celts were purchased by the Academy in 1916 with a 

 collection of antiquities. Each celt has a label attached to it, in the same 

 handwriting, inscribed, Ballyvalley Mountain, parish of Clonallan (Co. Down), 

 yrd May, 1843, John Eoney. There can be little doubt that these were 

 found together, as it is improbable that four celts not belonging to the same 

 find would apparentlj' have been discovered Ijy the same person on the same 

 day. All are covered with a green patina, and are quite flat, without stop- 

 ridges. One is decorated with a linear and a herring-bone pattern, another 

 with a herring-bone pattern and Ijroad ridges. (Plate XLVI, 4, 5, 6, and 7.) 

 Three flat celts were found at Carrow-Leekeen, Co. Mayo. They were 

 presented to the Academy by the Eev. P. J. M'Philpin, of Castlebar, through 

 Dr. Frazer, in 1885.' None shows any trace of stop-ridge; they are covered 

 with a greenish patina and are roughly decorated with a linear ornament. 

 Though it is not definitely so stated, in the note relative to their presentation, 

 in the Academy's minutes, there can be little doubt that these three celts 

 were found together. (Plate XLVI, 1, 2, and 3.) 



Among a number of antiquities purchased from the late Mr. S. P. 

 Milligan, ji k.i.a., in 1897, were three celts. Two are labelled as found 



' Korrespondenz-Blatt der D. G. f. A., E. u. U., 1009, pp. U, 12. 



" Proc. Royal Irish Academy, iv, pp. 106, 167; Wilde's Catalugue of the Mmcuin of 

 the Hoijal Irish Academy, p. 30!), iio.s. 4?, 49, 53, and 55. 

 ' Minutes of the Royal Irish Academy, 1885, Nov. 30. 



