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workers' art. There are two other spears of quite a different 

 type, with long openings in the blades ; one of these is labelled 

 "Spear from Naples, R.B. 1849." The R. B. is obviously the 

 late Sir Robert Bateson, first baronet, grandfather of the 

 present Lord Deramore. The second spear is very similar in 

 shape, but fresh and clean, instead of being deeply corroded. 

 There are two broad, thick and short blades with rivet holes at 

 base, which may have been battle axes. 



There is a dagger-knife blade, 5 inches long, labelled 

 " Irish skeyn, Co. Kildare," and there is another somewhat 

 similar, with socket and rivet holes. 



Of the leaf-shaped swords, which are usually seen in col- 

 lections of Irish antiquities. Lord Deramore's collection con- 

 tains eight ; some are much broken ; the largest of these is 20 

 inches long. There is an object of bronze which seems to be 

 the point of a scabbard ; it is 6^ inches long, and is decorated 

 with fine engraved lines. 



I find among the bronzes two socketted gouges ; they are 

 of small size, and are of a well-known type. 



There are forty-eight bronze rings, some of them hollow, 

 varying from i inch to 3^ inches in diameter. Such rings 

 have been found in great numbers in Ireland, the Museum 

 of the Royal Irish Academy containing more than one thousand 

 of them. It is supposed that they were for personal use, and 

 may have been sewed on clothing to serve as ornaments, or as 

 a protection against sword cuts. 



There is also a large ring, 4 inches across, which appears 

 to be made of jet. 



In the collection there is a bronze crucifix ; it is 12 inches 

 high ; the figure which is 4 inches high seems quite archaic, 

 but the cross looks rather modern. 



There are a few more objects of bronze in this interesting 

 collection, which may be briefiy named : — two bronze spurs ; a 

 bronze smoking pipe ; a bronze or brass cup, egg-cup shaped, 

 4 inches high ; a bronze boss z\ inches in diameter ; a circular 

 spoon or ladle, 4 inches across, and a few things that were 



