292 



An enclosed ring, of bronze, three and a quarter inches in dia- 

 meter ; a large decorated bronze pin, seven and a half inches long ; and 

 a smaller one, three inches in length. 



An iron knife blade, with perforated haft, eight and a half inches 

 long. This article looks as if it had been attached to a long handle. 

 A smaller blade, with tang for haft, two and three-quarter inches in 

 length. A globular piece of iron, two and three quarter inches in dia- 

 meter, like a crotal, with an aperture on one side. The head of a small 

 iron hammer. Three portions of rings, and eleven other iron fragments, 

 the uses of which have not been determined. 



Three oval artificially- worked stones. 



A small perforated stone, like a whorl or distaff weight. 



A very perfect bone piercer ; and a small very highly polished bone 



pin. 



Two portions of bone combs. A bone spoon, ingeniously formed out 

 out of the epiphysis of a young ruminant animal. 



With all these articles furnished by Lord Farnham from the Toney- 

 more crannoge, may be associated the sixteen specimens from the same 

 locality which I presented in 1860, on the part of Mr. O'Brien, and 

 which are enumerated iu vol. viii., pp. 275, 276. 



"When we consider that this is the only Irish crannoge that has ever 

 been thoroughly examined from summit to base, aU these articles, when 

 collected together, and serving to illustrate the manners, habits, customs, 

 arts, and mode of life, of that portion of the Celtic population which re- 

 sided therein, perhaps for centuries, as well as illustrating beyond any 

 account which has yet been given, the construction of these ancient habi- 

 tations, they will, I am sure, be regarded with much interest, not merely 

 by the archaeological section of the Academy, but by the various other 

 European investigators into like structures, who have called public at- 

 tention to such matters during the last six years. And it is worthy of 

 remark that, while these memorabilia of our ancestors have been past by 

 with but little notice for the last twenty years, the Scientific Academy 

 of Zurich and other literary bodies on the continent have published ac- 

 counts and given illustrations of almost every fragment that has been 

 found in the crannoges of Switzerland and Savoy. 



The circumstance of several valuable gold articles having been found 

 near the avenue leading up to the great sejoulchral pyramid of JSTew- 

 grange is already well known to the learned, from the description given 

 of them in the Archffiologia," vol. xxx., p. 137, and from their being 

 figured in Lord Londesborough's beautiful '^Catalogue of articles of An- 

 cient Art." Since then no other remnant of the past has been found either 

 in or adjacent to !N"ewgran^e, except the grave containing the vitrified 

 stones which I have described in the 3rd volume of ^'The Proceedings," 

 p. 262, until the past year, when Mr. Maguire, the liberal landowner of 

 Newgrange, to whom the public are much indebted for the preservation 



