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of that great monument, and who has recently cleared away a large por- 

 tion of rubbish from the opening, found in the adjoining field the small 



fragment of gold which I now present to the Academy. It is a double 

 fillet, soldered along one edge, plain behind, but highly decorated in front 

 in two compartments, one of which presents a shell -like ornament, as yet 

 unknown in Irish gold work, and much resembling Indian manufacture. 

 It is If inches long byfths wide, and weighs 3 dwts. 3 grs. The chas- 

 ing and punched work is remarkably perfect. 



I also beg to present on the part of Mr. Faulkner, of Lower Bridge- 

 street, Dublin, the most perfect single-piece oaken boat which has yet 

 been discovered in Ireland. It is eighteen feet nine inches long, and 

 averages two feet ten inches wide, and twenty inches high in the side. 

 It was found upwards of twenty years ago in the bed of the EiverBoyne, 

 near the southern bank, in the deep water between Oldbridge and 

 Drogheda, and was exhibited as a curiosity in Liverpool many years ago. 

 It has three artificial apertures in the bottom, as shown in the accom- 

 panying illustration. 



From the venerable William Thomson, Director of the Antiquarian 

 Museum at Copenhagen, moulds and casts of the gold handle of a 

 bronze leaf-bladed sword, recently found in Denmark, and which fit the 

 handles of several of the bronze swords in the Academy. 



From Alex. M. Holmberg, a distinguished Swedish antiquary, a 

 triangular flint arrowhead, two and three quarter inches long. 



From the late Professor Andrew Retzius, the distinguished anato- 

 mist and physiologist of Stockholm, a collection of bronze antiquities, 

 found in Scandinavia, and consisting of — A large and small dog-headed 

 brooch ; a double breast-fastener, the larger pin cruciform, the smaller 

 plain, and connected by a chain a foot long, a peculiarity common 

 to decorative articles in the north, especially along the shores of the 

 Baltic. 



Both the tortoise-shaped, the dog-headed, and many other brooches 

 were worn double, — one over each breast, and connected by ornamental 



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