. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. kys possession, and through the kindness of Miss Lecky, afterher fathers death, I was permitted to acquire it. The facts connected with its finding were well known to TVindele,whose memory carried him back to the time of its discovery. Thefollowing notice appears in Tuckeys Cork Remembrancer, untlerApril 10th, 1806 (not 1805 as in Croker). A human skeleton, around which Avas found the remnant of a gar-ment with hroad plates of figured gold of considerable value, was dis-covered in a quarry in the neighbourhood of Castlemartyr; severalam
. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. kys possession, and through the kindness of Miss Lecky, afterher fathers death, I was permitted to acquire it. The facts connected with its finding were well known to TVindele,whose memory carried him back to the time of its discovery. Thefollowing notice appears in Tuckeys Cork Remembrancer, untlerApril 10th, 1806 (not 1805 as in Croker). A human skeleton, around which Avas found the remnant of a gar-ment with hroad plates of figured gold of considerable value, was dis-covered in a quarry in the neighbourhood of Castlemartyr; severalamber beads much injured by time, and something resembling a mitre inshape, were also found. This, as a contemporary account, is of peculiar value, and is singularlyaccurate, as one of the amber beads of mitre shape has been preservedwith the plate of gold, and came to me with it. As some of our readers may not have an opportunity of consultingCroker, I venture to give the extract from liis graceful pen. After 414 ROYAL .SOCIETY OV ANTIQUARIES OF Fig. 1. describing Carrick-iia-Crump, and the cavernous nature of the limestonecountry about Cloyne, he says (page 253)that :— A curious discovery was made not farfrom Castlemartyr by a quarryman ; in con-sequence of the crowbar liaving accidentallyfallen through a fissure in the rock, hewidened the aperture and descended insearch of the instrument into a cavern,where he was not a little surprised tobehold a human skeleton, partly coveredwith exceedingly tbiu plates of stamped orembossed gold, connected by bits of also found several amber beads. Thesketch (fig. 1) of one of these gold platesis [nearly] the same size as the original,which is in the possession of Mr. Lecky of Cork, with the fragment of a bead. The remainder of the gold was sold and melted in Cork and Youghal, and a jeweller who purchased the greater part told me the quantity he had melted, to use his own words, was rather more than the contents of half
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