Bronze Implement found near Currie, Mid-LotMan. 97 
natural size.) The Irish specimen is described in the Catalogue 
referred to (p. 549) as follows : — " It is all of one piece, inches 
long, If wide ; has a stout, flat stem, decorated on the surface, with 
an aperture near the top; and has exceedingly hard, sharp side- 
edges. The two other specimens are smaller. There is a large 
specimen in Trinity College Museum." "It is conjectured they 
were used as razors." 
Supposed Use of the Bronze Implement found at Kinleith. — The 
appearance of the whole of these bronzes, like that of the one now 
exhibited, is manifestly suggestive of some kind of delicate cutting 
or scraping process, not improbably the rather important one of 
shaving ! The circular ring at the extremity of the handle of the 
Fig. 3. 
Bronze Implement from Kinleith, showing how it may have been held for use. 
(Scale, one-half of size.) 
one found at Kinleith may have been simply for its preservation 
by suspension, as a valuable and useful instrument, and perhaps 
ornament; and the Irish ancient "razor" has also a circular 
opening, pierced, however, at its upper extremity, probably for a 
i similar purpose. It seemed at first rather difficult to account for 
I the peculiar and regular openings cut in the plate of bronze, by 
\ which this Kinleith specimen differed in character from the Irish 
\ one. I found, however, that by passing my first finger into the 
rounded opening left between the blades, which indeed it seemed 
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