  CCD observations for 10 (6 previously known and 4 newly discovered) of the 11
RR Lyrae variables in NGC 5897 have been analysed. The period-luminosity and
period-amplitude plots indicate that the population of RR Lyrae variables in
NGC 5897 includes 3 fundamental mode, 4 first-overtone and 4 second-overtone
variables with mean periods 0.828, 0.459 and 0.343 days respectively. The
variables have properties that are similar to some of the Oosterhoff type II
variables in Omega Centauri. Two of the new variables (V11 and V13) were
previously considered to be possible non-variables that lie within or near the
instability strip on the horizontal branch; both have V amplitudes less than
0.2 mag. There is a chance that one or two of the variables (V10 and possibly
V3) might be anomalous Cepheids and not RR Lyrae stars.
