Armstrong — Stone Chalices^ so called. 



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Note added in Peess. 



After my paper was finished, and while going to press, I had the 

 advantage of handling Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde's two lamps, 

 and having proper drawings made of them. 



I take the opportunity afforded by this note of adding an illustra- 

 tion, fig. 3 below, of another stone vessel, also in the collection of the 

 Royal Irish Academy, which I found after my paper had been read. 

 It is hollowed out at each end, like fig. 6, in Plate XXI., and is 

 important, as it shows the continuation of the same type of vessel 

 as figs. 4 and 6, plate. Its measurements are 2f inches high, 

 5 inches in diameter at one end and 3^ at the other. The cavity at 

 the larger end is \-^\ inch deep, and at the narrower end is if inch. 



Fig. 2. Fig. 1. Fig 3. 



This vessel displays distinct traces of burning and blackening. 

 I would also like to meet a possible objection that the other vessels 

 described, with the exception of fig. 8 of the plate, do not retain 

 traces of soot. Most of these vessels have been buried in the earth 

 for over a thousand years, and exposed to weather. Even, however, 

 allowing for this, and the cleaning and neglect they have met with 



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