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A most beautiful specimen of nearly the same pat- 
tern. Fig. 2: 
Another not so perfect: 
An armlet, with a ring for the finger to match. 
Fig. 3: 
Two rings for the first or second joint of a lady’s 
finger. Fig. 4: 
An armlet, of a curious twisted pattern, with a finger 
ring to match. Fig.5: 
A torque, evidently, from its lightness, intended for 
the neck of a female. Fig. 6: 
Part of a ring, much rubbed, and probably broken in 
order to ascertain of what metal the whole 
collection was made; which is of British brass. 
Four palstaves, or celts, without sockets; three having 
loops for thongs, the other without; all of dif- 
ferent patterns. 
I now come to what I consider to be the most inte- 
resting of the whole collection—Fig. 7; it is of the same 
pattern as the Jogh-Draoch, or chain-ring of divina- 
tion, discovered in Ireland, and which, Meyrick says, was 
worn on the third finger of the left hand, by the Arch- 
druid :—the finger still held the most sacred, and on which 
is placed the wedding-ring. 
With all due deference to my Archsological friends, 
I will now risk my opinion as to those precious and truly 
interesting antiques. We know that from the number of 
oaks, yews, and other kinds of trees, which from time to 
time have been discovered in our once British lake, that 
forests were on its borders; in them, perhaps, the horrid 
rites of Druidism were performed. Misht not, then, a 
British priestess, at a very early date, have lost this then 
most valuable cist from her canoe. The knives are 
