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little distance apai't. The usual weig-lit of these coins is from 83 

 to 8") grains ; in the present instance it is 80| grains, the coin 

 having- lost to some extent by wear." In conclusion, he says : — 

 " Unsatisfactory as it may appear, the whole that can with cer- 

 tainty be predicated of these coins is, that they were struck in the 

 western part of England at a rather late period of the British 

 coinage. To this may be added the probability that on them is 

 preserved a portion, or possibly the whole, of the name of some 

 prince, and that he reigned over the Boduni." 



GOLD LUNETTE. 

 A very fine gold lunette, found in ploughing- on the farm of 

 Auchentaggai't, in the parish of Sancpihar, during the winter of 

 1872-73, was deposited in the National Museum by the late Duke 

 of Buccleuch. When found it was folded up and rolled together 

 almost like a ball. It measures nine inches in greatest breadth, 

 and is formed of a band of thin beaten gold 2^ inches in breadth 

 at the middle, tapering to the ends, each of which terminates in a 

 disc-like expansion at the end of a slightly twisted neck. X small 

 portion of one of the discs appears to have been broken off and the 

 disc re-mended, as there are nine small perforations along the 

 broken edge. The upper side of the lunette is ornamented by 

 bauds of parallel lines along each margin and at each extremity by 

 bands of ziz-zags and dots. The weight is 4 oz. 1 dwt. 5 grs. 

 Two similar lunettes are in the National (JoUection, one of which 

 was found at Southside, near Coulter, Lanarkshire, and the other 

 near Fochabers. Elginshire. In Riddell's MSS. (Vol. viii., p. 284) 

 mention is made of what appears to have been another of these 

 gold lunettes. Kiddell's words are : — "Several Roman Antiquities 

 have been found near Moffat, such as gold rings with gems in 

 them, arid not long ago [i.e., before May, 1790] a fragment of a 

 golden gorget, which weighed seven guineas, was purchased here 

 by Dr Walker, late Minister of Moffat, now Professor of Natural 

 History in the University of Edinburgh." Needless to say 

 nothing is now known of this "gorget." These lunettes are more 

 numei'ous in Ireland than in Scotland, the Museum of the Royal 

 Irish Academy' possessing- (in 186-2) no less than fifteen specimens, 

 eleven of which are complete ; and there is another Irish one in the 

 National Museum in Edinlnugh. 



1 Catatoijue of Gold Urnamtnls in Museum, R.I. A., pp. 10-17. 



