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The disc itself is made of two slightly convex plates, fas- 
tened back to back. The ornament on the back plate is slight- 
ly different from that on the front plate, which is covered with 
gold foil, which has been applied by pressure ; while the edge 
was fixed by means of a copper wire hammered over the gold 
into a channel near the margin. On the side of the ’disc 
nearer to the horse was a small loop which held the rein which 
was attached at the other end to the neck of the horse. 
Now the bronze disc in the British Museum to which I 
have already referred not only resembles the Danish disc in 
ornament in important points, but it also has on its rim 
two loops, which are exactly in the right relative position, 
one to hold the rein, and the other for the attachment to the 
car. The identification of this disc as part of one of these 
car-drawn votive offerings may therefore be regarded as 
certain, and the identification of the gold-foil discs, which 
no doubt originally covered discs of bronze, naturally follows. 
To return now to our own bronze plaque ; the ornament and 
plating associate it closely with the British Museum discs, and 
we may, therefore, confidently accept the identification of 
this also as a part of a votive offering which was originally 
drawn by a model horse. It may be added that though we 
have not recovered any fragments of the horse or car we have 
collected various fragments of fused metal which may not 
improbably be the remains of the one or the other. 
We must now pass on to consider the mutual relations of our 
Lansdown disc, the Irish discs in the British Museum, and the 
Trundholm disc, and for this purpose I must now describe the 
ornament in some detail. 
We will begin with the Trundholm disc, and it will be suffi- 
cient for our purpose if I describe only the front disc, for the ° 
back plate is different only as has been stated above, in the 
omission of certain features. 
The Trundholm disc is Io inches in diameter. The design 
has been produced by the punch, and it may be summarized 
as consisting of three bands, each formed of several ‘circles, 
whose common centre is the centre of the disc. The space 
between the outer and second of these bands is filled by about 
28 roundlets each composed of concentric circles. The space 
between the second and third of the bands is filled by a 
series of spirals, and the central space within the third and 
smallest band is filled by eight roundlets surrounding another, 
which occupies the centre of the disc. These are again orna- 
mented with small concentric circles. 
