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peculiarly Irish. It was found in Derrycassel Lake, barony of Tally haw, 

 county of Cavan. 



From the same locality an iron weapon- tool, adze- shaped on one 

 side, and hatchet on the other, 9 inches long. 



From Sruagh ford, on the Shannon, a stone hammer, 4f inches long ; 

 and from the excavations at Killeshandra bridge, county of Cavan, an 

 oval punch of hard stone, 3 J inches long. 



Also, from Sruagh ford, the ferule and spike of a lance, 7 inches long, 

 and the bronze end of the scabbard of an antique sword. 



I beg to present to the Academy, on the part of Lord Farnham, a 

 very perfect and elegantly formed antique bronze sword-blade, of the 

 leaf-shape pattern, 23f inches long, and 1 j broad in the widest portion 

 of the blade, with four thorough and three imperfect rivet holes in the 

 handle, which is 4 inches in length. It was found in the townland and 

 parish of Kildallan, barony of TuUyhunco, county of Cavan, and is one 

 of the finest specimens of this description of weapon now in the Aca- 

 demy's collection. 



Also, from the same locality, two antique iron spurs, with angular 

 rowel stems. 



A bronze ring-brooch, with decorations of an early character, similar 

 to those on mortuary urns of the pagan period, and having a stud for a 

 jewel or enamel on each side of the pivot on which the pin plays. The 

 ring, which is complete, measures 2^ inches in diameter, and the acus 

 is 6j inches long. It also was found in Kildallan. 



An iron basket-hilted sword, found during the drainage operations 

 in the townland of Derrigid, in the demesne of Farnham, the blade 

 of which is very thin, and measures 30 J inches long, by an average of 

 an inch broad ; - the pummel is a knob of iron, and the tang or handle 

 portion between it and the guard is not quite 3 inches long — thus show- 

 ing, so far at least as the evidence derived from the size of the sword 

 handle is concerned, that the modern hand is fully as small as the 

 ancient. A smaller blade, with tang for the haft, two and three quarter 

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

 inches in diameter, 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. 



An additional collection of articles found in the Tonymore cran- 

 noge, already described at page 274, and consisting of: — A piece of 

 orpiment, probably used in dying. 



From Andrew Armstrong, Esq., two antique, thin, hand-made, un- 

 glazed earthen pots, from Callernish, in the island of Lewis, Hebrides, 

 and there called " crackens." These cooking utensils, which, says the 

 donor, " are made by the women, then baked in a turf fire, and when red 

 hot are saturated with milk, stand fire, and were used for boiling ; but 

 their use has now been quite superseded by the ordinary metal pot." 

 Each is about 8 inches high, and 25 in circnmference. 



From Mons. E.. S. Le Men, keeper of the records of the department 

 of Finisterre, two bronze celts of a peculiar character, like some of those 



