labelled as having been found in the townland of Legagrane, 

 parish of Dunaghy. Several small crucibles, which have 

 evidently been used, are in the collection. Such crucibles are 

 occasionally found about the crannogs or lake dwellings, and 

 were, no doubt, used for melting the gold, bronze, and findrinne, 

 or white bronze, of which the ancient inhabitants of the country 

 formed the beautiful personal ornaments and weapons which 

 are so familiar to us. The finding of these worn crucibles 

 proves that metal work was carried on in the districts where 

 they are found. The last objects which may be enumerated as 

 coming under the class of earthen materials are some of those 

 small clay tobacco pipes which are found in many places, 

 generally about towns or places which were centres of popula- 

 tion a couple of hundred years ago. The peasantry call these 

 Danes' pipes, from the fondness they have of attributing every- 

 thing ancient that they do not understand to the Danes ; or 

 sometimes, by calling them fairy pipes, they attribute a super- 

 natural origin to them. In reality, however, they have a much 

 later and more prosaic origin, as they were just the ordinary 

 smoking pipes of about two hundred years ago. They are 

 often found in street cuttings for sewers, associated with copper 

 coins of the Williamite period, and many of them are stamped 

 with initials or other trade marks, which are known to have 

 been used by pipe makers who lived at Broseley and other 

 places in England. Of these pipes there are seven. There are 

 also some objects of jet which are curious. 



This, I think, exhausts the articles that are formed of glass 

 or earthen materials, and I therefore pass on to a more inte- 

 resting class of objects — namely, those of bronze. These are 

 more interesting, because they show an entirely fresh departure 

 in human culture. Hitherto I have spoken of axes and lance 

 heads formed of stone ; now we find them formed of a hard and 

 handsome metal, taking a keen edge, many of them carefully 

 and thoughtfully ornamented with patterns formed by incised 

 lines or dots, the very kind of ornament that was most suitable 

 to the material and the objects. You can well imagine how 

 soon a race of people armed only with stone would go down 



