Armstrong — Associated Finds of Bronze Celts. 523 



undoubtedly rest upon some material foundation, and are possibly based 

 upon some such early intercourse as has been indicated. If Ireland received 

 the knowledge of metal-working from Spain, the tradition of a connexion 

 with that country might be expected to endure, and in much later times may 

 have been changed into the forms in which we meet it in various early 

 Irish documents. 



APPENDIX I. 



List of Moulds foukd in Ireland foe Casting Various Types of Celts. 



The moulds in the Academy's collection include four complete and seven 

 half-moulds for casting palstaves, or flanged celts with stop-ridges ; also 

 one complete and one half-mould for casting socketed celts. The localities 

 in which they have been found are as follows : — One of the complete 

 moulds for casting palstaves was found in Co. Carlow ; another was discovered 

 in Moonbaun Bog, near Abbeyleix, Queen's Co. ; the exact locality of the 

 third is unrecorded ; it was deposited by Trinity College, Dublin ; the fourth 

 was found at Ballycastle, Co. Antrim.' Of the half-moulds one was found in 

 Dromore, Co. Down ; another, for casting a flanged celt, was obtained from 

 Lough Scur crannog, Co. Leitrim (this mould also has a matrix for casting 

 a flat celt) ;' a third, of bronze, was probably found in the North of Ireland ; 

 the locality of the fourth is unrecorded (Petrie Collection) ; the fifth was found 

 near Dundalk;^ the locality of the sixth is imrecorded (Petrie Collection). 

 The seventh is a half-mould of bronze for casting a palstave ; it was formerly 

 in the collection of Dr. Hill, of Dublin. The complete mould for casting 

 a socketed celt was found at Ballydagh, Co. Kilkenny ; it was deposited by 

 the Eoyal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. The locality of the half -mould 

 is unrecorded.* 



In addition, the following moulds (among others) have been found in 

 Ireland: — Half a stone-mould for casting a double-looped socketed axe, 

 discovered in a field at Innyarn Hill, Fethard, Co. Tipperary. Its present 

 habitat is unknown to the writer. It is figured in the Journal of the Roycd 

 Society of Anticpiaries of Ireland, xix, p. 290. There are also preserved in the 

 National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, at Edinburgh, a stone-mould 



' Figured by Evans, Bronze Implements, p. 431, fig. 516. 

 2 Figured by Wilde, cp. cit., p. 91, fig. 72. 

 ^ Figured by Evans, op. cit., p. 431, fig. 517. 

 ^ Figured by Wilde, op. cit., p. 91, fig. 73. 



