enclosed and protected from decay a minute portion of puckered cloth which had been caught between the point of the thick pin and the iron catch into which it slipped when the brooch was fastened on the dress. I have been able to remove and mount for microscopical examination some small scraps of this cloth. It appears to be linen, but with a partial admixture of another fibre, which may be hemp, and I can detect no material difference between the cloth in the specimen from Norway and that from the island of Tiree on our own western coast. ----- Footnote 25: The metal of which these brooches are made is not bronze but a very soft brass. Professor Rygh has given the details of the analyses of four, and the composition of the metal is as follows:— Analyses of bowl-shaped brooches. Copper. Zinc. Lead. 1. From Stromsund, Norway 74·78 10·44 14·36 2. From Braak, Norway 72·85 11·90 15·71 3. From Gardness, Norway 88·00 11·90 ... 4. From Denmark 84·44 11·00 3·77 ----- Continuing our inquiry as to the area over which these peculiar relics have been found in Scotland, we ascertain that there are other instances of their occurrence in the Hebrides. On the island of Barra a large grave-mound, crowned by a standing stone 7 feet high, was opened by Commander Edge in 1862. The grave contained a skeleton placed with the head to the west, and along with it there were found an iron sword, 33 inches in length, with remains of the scabbard, a shield-boss of iron and some remains of the shield, a whetstone, two oval bowl-shaped brooches of this type, and a comb of bone, 8 inches in length.[26] A similar burial was found “in the island of Sangay” (probably Sanderay) “between Uist and Harris.” The grave contained a skeleton, and with it were found a pair of these brooches (closely resembling Fig. 48, from Pierowall in Orkney), together with a brass pin and a brass needle.[27] Even in remote St. Kilda the evidences of the occurrence of this typical form of burial are not wanting. A pair of these oval brooches found in that island are preserved in the Andersonian Museum, Glasgow.[28] ----- Footnote 26: _Proc. Soc. Antiq. Lond._ 1861–64, p. 230. The comb is there said to have been of boxwood, but it seems more likely that it was of bone. Footnote 27: One of these brooches is figured in the _Vetusta Monumenta of the Society of Antiquaries of London_, vol. ii. pl. xx., and it is there said that “the fellow of it is in the British Museum.” Footnote 28: One of these is figured by Worsaae in the _Aarboger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed_ for 1873. -----