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ting from Benin, showing natives holding manillas, 69 Plate VI, gold ring-money, 70 65. Leaf-shaped bronze swords found with a spear-head at Tempo, Co. Fermanagh, 72 66. Bronze chapes, 73 67. Winged chapes, 73 68. Bronze shield found at Lough Gur, Co. Limerick, 74 69. Alder-wood shield found in Co. Leitrim, 75 70. Front and back of leather shield, found at Clonbrin, Co. Longford, 76 Plate VII, gold torcs from Tara and elsewhere, 78 Plate VIII, gold torcs, 78 Plate IX, gold torcs from Clonmacnois and Broighter, 80 71. Two late Bronze-Age finds, 83 72. Late Bronze-Age horse-hair fabrics from Armoy, Co. Antrim, 84 73. Bronze implements, Co. Tipperary, 85 74. Bronze implements found at Kilfeakle, Co. Tipperary, 86 Plate X, bronze trumpets, 88 75. Mould for casting a sickle, found at Killymeddy, Co. Antrim, 89 76. Bronze sickles, 90 77. Bronze sickles, 91 78. Bronze disk, 92 79. Bronze button, 92 80. Incense cup, 94 81. Cinerary urn, 94 82. Food-vessel with cover, Danesfort, Co. Kilkenny, 95 83. Cinerary urn, Carballybeg, Co. Waterford, 96 Plate XI, food-vessels in the order of their development, 96 84. Model of cinerary urn from Greenhills, Co. Dublin, 97 85. Cinerary urn, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, 98 * * * * * THE BRONZE AGE IN IRELAND CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION This book deals with the Bronze Age principally from the point of view of the implements and weapons in use in Ireland during that period. It is unnecessary to state that the materials for writing anything like a full account of the civilization or political organization during the Bronze A
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