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This was found with the last, which it resembles, but its points are more distant ; 
it is of gold, and weighed 9 oz.; it has deep cups at the points, which originally, 
perhaps, were made to regulate its weight. 
These are very attenuated specimens. The first only weighed 16 dwts, 12 grs., and is 
in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society ; the other two ounces. The cups are 
large and very thin ; the transition is gradual from the last. 
This is also of gold, and weighed twelve ounces; the cups are very large. Ano- 
ther weighed 30z. 12dwts. Ihave seen many other specimens of greater weight ; 
all, however, of equal penny-weights. 
This is also of gold, and weighed 19 oz.: it was found in a stone chest in the 
church-yard of Ballymoney, in the County of Antrim. I had one nearly, if not pre- 
cisely, of the same figure, which weighed 36 oz.; and Vallancey mentions one which 
weighed 56 oz. ‘The cups of this are five inches in dianfeter. ‘Two others are men- 
tioned by Vallancey, one weighing 15 oz., the other 1 oz. 12grs. It should be 
observed, that one or two have been found of a weight two or three grains less than 
the even twelve grains, which may have been lost by attrition, but they are very few— 
I have met with but two or three, and they may be considered exceptions to the 
rule. 
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