Batt—Gold Nuggets found in Co. Wicklow. 321 
Calvert! points out exceeded in weight the Crawford nugget of 
30 oz., said to have been found in the 16th century. Thus our 
champion proves to be a myth. 
This nugget of 2112 grs. was subsequently obtained by Sir 
Robert Kane from Mr. R. Purdon, Secretary to the Mining 
Company of Ireland; and I am informed by Dr. Fraser that in 
the year 1862 he saw it on exhibition in the Museum of Irish 
Industry. In the year 1865, together with some other specimens, 
including ancient Irish ornaments of gold, it was stolen from the 
Museum, and was, in all probability, promptly consigned to the 
melting pot ; so that we are not likely to see it again. 
Nugget of 1502-5 yi's.=3 og. 2 dwt. 14-5 grs. (see Pl. x11. fig. 3).— 
Formerly the weight of this nugget was stated to be 1507 grs.,” 
and the specimen is still so marked on the label. The difference 
is probably due to the removal of a sample, say 4°5 grs. for assay. 
Appended to a reprint of the paper by Mills in the Phil. 
Trans., which has been referred to above, p. 314, the Transac- 
tions of the Royal Dublin Society for 1800° contain some notes, 
including the following :—“ By command of our Noble President, 
Earl Hardwicke, Lord Lieutenant, the Museum of the Society 
has been furnished with a lump of gold weighing 3 ounces, and 
1 ounce of small scales from these mines; the lump is of a pris- 
matical form; on two sides are several grains of white quartz, 
sunk in the metal; on several of the small scales the quartz is 
also discoverable.”’—G. Vallancy. 
Although this description hardly conveys a proper conception 
of the amount of quartz present in the nugget, which really per- 
meates the mass, it cannot but refer to the very specimen under 
description, and of which the figure conveys a good idea. The 
scales, so called, are still in the Collection. 
The very true remark has before now been made with regard 
to the Wicklow gold, that although as yet it has not been found 
in quartz (i.e. in sitw), quartz is often found in the gold. 
1 «Gold Rocks of Great Britain and Ireland,’’ London, 1853, p. 174. Mr. G. 
Kinahan seems to have been misled by this authority when referring to the 40 oz. 
nugget. See Journ. Roy. Geol. Society, vol. vi., Pt. ii., 1882, p. 140, note. 
2 In Giesecke’s Catalogue, 1832, p. 241. It is referred to however as weighing 
oz. and as 1500 grs. in Journ. Roy. Geol. Soc., vol. xi., 1864, p. 99. 
3 Dublin, vol. i. 1801, p. 465. 
