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forwarded to the Academy was the only perfect one remaining. Then 

 the spade struck the pin, which was sticking in pieces of the cloth ; 

 then the rest of the objects were found all close together. The little 

 leather case (Avith the object which it enclosed) escaped Mr. Black's 

 attention on that day ; but when looking carefully in exactly the same 

 spot on the following Monday, he found it also. We think that, 

 perhaps, if the objects had [not] been wrapped in the cloth, the 

 heavier ones would have sunk in wet weather quite down to the gravel. 

 Mr. Black removed the pieces of cloth to his house, after they had 

 remained on the surface of the bog for some days. 



''There were also remains of leather straps, some about one inch and 

 a quarter in width, some narrower, and some round the objects like 

 beads or buttons ; but these all crumbled away at once. Mr. Black 

 has since dug back into the bog for some distance — more than five feet 

 backwards — but nothing further has turned up." 



Mr. Black called at the Museum last February, but could add 

 nothing to the account given by Miss O'Connor. 



The objects may now be described. The socketed celt (Plate XI., 

 fig. 1) is well made, with expanded edge and flat sides, boldly curved, 

 of inches long by 2f inches across the cutting-edge and 1 inch internal 

 diameter of socket. The gouge (Plate XL, fig. 2) is 2f inches long 

 by f inch across cutting-edge, and \\ inch in diameter of socket. It 

 has some peculiarities : the edge is expanded fan-wise ; occasionally 

 an example shows a tendency towards edge-expansion, but it is more 

 decided in this specimen than is usual, forming an ear at each side ; 

 then the edge is not on the prolongation of the back line of the 

 socket ; it is sloped from the back to the front, making a distinct elbow, 

 as seen in the side view. Thus, it does not require the handle to be 

 so much depressed when using as if this were not so. This feature 

 is not found in any of the other of the numerous examjiles in the 

 Academy's collection, at least to so marked an extent; and it does 

 not occur in the illustrations of English gouges in 8ir John Evans' 

 ''Bronze Implements of Great Britain." In Scotland, it may be men- 

 tioned, gouges are of extreme rarity. 



The pin (Plate XI., fig. 3) is of a form fairly common in Ireland. 

 Tlie disk-shaped head is ornamented with concentric circles surrounding 

 a raised conical centre. The head is bent over, so that the disk is parallel 

 to the pin, as is generally the case with the Irish examples of this 

 class of pin. It is unusually long ; they are mostly about 6 or 8 inches. 

 This pin is, however, 12| inches, including the head. 



Plate XL, fig. 4. A thin, double-bladed, tanged knife of the form 



