166 BURIED PIPES. 
have been found between the jaws of the skull of an ancient 
Milesian exhumed at Bannockstown, county Kildare. _ Upon 
this discovery, an elaborate and learned paper was written in 
the ‘ Authologia Hibernica,’ setting forth this pipe as a 
proof of the use of tobacco in Ireland Jong before that coun- 
try was invaded by the Danes. This pipe has, been proved 
by comparison to be probably quite late in the reign of 
Elizabeth. They also have a more modern pipe, the stem of 
which describes one or more circles, while another is tied in 
a knot, yet allows a free passage of air. At another time, 
», in opening an Anglo-Saxon 
grave mound, some of the 
men employed came across 
a fairy pipe which evidently 
had rolled down from among 
the surface-soil, and, being 
See ee turned out in juxtaposition 
with undoubted Anglo-Saxon remains, was immediately set 
down by the learned director of the proceedings as a relic of 
that period. At another time I had brought to me, as a 
great curiosity, two ‘Roman pipes,’ as I was informed—the . 
finders jumping to the conclusion that because they had dug 
them up at little Chester (the Roman station Derventio), they 
must be Roman pipes! I believe they expected to receive a 
large sum from these relics: how grievously they were dis- 
appointed I need not tell. Instances of this kind are far 
from rare. 
“I remember a man once bringing me some fragments of 
Roman pottery and other things of the same period, which 
he had turned up in the course of excavations, and among 
them was a Tobacco stopper formed of a Sacheverell medal! . 
and a George II. half-penny, all of which he was ready to 
swear he had found “all of a heap together,” inside a hypo- 
caust tile, which, on examination, certainly had remained zn 
situ from Romano-British times! The cupidity of a man 
had evidently led him to collect together these odds and 
ends, and try to turn them to profitable account. Some 
twenty years ago, a large number of “ elfin pipes” were dug 
up at Bomington, near Edinburgh, along with a quantity of 
placks or bodles of James VI., which thus gave trustworthy . 
evidence of their true date. Others were found in thé 
ancient cemetery at North Berwick, adjoining to which is a 
small Romanesque building of the Twelfth Century, close 
upon the shore. Within the last half-century, the sea has 
