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may with much greater probability be restored as a disc of 
which the centre consists of a circle surrounded by chevrons or 
rays pointing outwards. These are enclosed in a large raised 
circle, outside which comes a border of small raised circles, 
and the rim may have been fixed by “ copper wire hammered 
over the gold into a channel near the margin,”’ as described in 
Mr. Reginald Smith’s paper. 



(Photo hy Mr. G. Grey.) 
Gold-plated bronze disc. Scale—# linear. 
The ornament on our disc somewhat closely resembles that 
on a bronze disc and on: a disc of gold-foil that were found in 
Ireland, and are now in the British Museum, but the meaning 
and use of these discs were quite uncertain till a chance dis- 
