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VII. 



TWO FINDS OF LATE BRONZE AGE OBJECTS. 

 By GEORGE COFFEY. 

 (Plates XI.-XII.) 



Eead May 28, 1906. Ordered for Publication May 30. 

 Published June 25, 1906. 



In the year 1904 the Academy secured an important find of Late 

 Bronze Age objects. They consist of a socketed celt, a gouge, a 

 pin, a razor (the last in a simple leather case), a portion of a woollen 

 garment, an ornament of horsehair, like a tassel, and some pieces of 

 wood. Miss J. S. O'Connor, of Ballycastle, who took a great interest in 

 the find, was instrumental in enabling the Academy to purchase the 

 objects from the finder. 



Unfortunately, Miss O'Connor did not hear of the find until about 

 a fortnight after it took place. In a letter of the 27tli June, 1904, she 

 has put in the following connected form such information of the finding 

 as she and her sister were able to get, the leading circumstances of 

 which she had already acquainted the Academy with on first notifying 

 the discovery : — 



" These objects were found in a bog in the townland of Cromaghs, 

 parish of Arinoy, County Antrim, on Tuesday, 12th May, 1904, when 

 Mr. Robert Black, with an assistant, was cutting turf. He was 

 digging the fourth row from the top, which was only a few inches 

 above the gravel bottom of the bog, when something appeared which 

 secuied at first sight to be a kind of mossy accumulation which some- 

 times appears in bogs, and which in this district is called ' Peat Cat ' — 

 so it sounds ; next they thought it to be a piece of old sack, and the 

 assistant dragged some of it upwards, thus, Mr. Black believes, dis- 

 placing the position of the objects, which had been most likely 

 wrapped inside the cloth ; then, w^hat made him think he had come on 

 something unusual, he saw the ornament, or bow, lying upon the top 

 of the remaining cloth : it was in this form ; but then in using 

 the spade three of the pieces composing it were injured, and the piece 



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