38 DISCOVERY OF A GOLD CUP IN CORNWALL. 



outline or form of the gold cup is by no means rare, and might 

 find a type in more than one period of early art, especially in 

 fictile ware. I observed several such earthenware vases from 

 Boulogne in the late Paris Exhibition, in the inner circle, which 

 might pass for fac-similes of the ]3resent cup (except the handle), 

 with like annular horizontal undulations of the surface. 



There is an armlet, found in Lincolnshire,'^ which, both in 

 respect of material and of workmanship, might be a counterpart 

 of the cup, but for its application to the purposes of a personal 

 ornament, instead of a cup. Indeed the corrugation of thin gold 

 seems to be a mode of metallurgy thcit has been resorted to in 

 various analogous objects in that metal, which have been referred 

 to as early, or Keltic, manufacture, quite unconnected with Phoe- 

 nician, Eoman, or Saxon work. We have an example in the gold 

 corslet found at Mold, in Flintshire, which is now in the British 

 Museum, t together Avith some other small portions of like sulcated, 

 or punched laminae of gold in the same glass case with the corslet. 

 The diadems, or gorgets, of gold, figured in Sir W. E. Wilde's 

 Catalogue of the Gold Antiquities in the M'useum of the Royal 

 Irish Acaclemy,X also afford examples of a like treatment of gold 

 laminae for the purposes either of ornament or of increased 

 strength. For the latter purpose, those who have observed the 

 growth of shells of deep-sea moUusks, must recollect how often 

 the like purpose of protecting their brittle envelopes seems to be 

 effected by annular folds or corrugations of the outer material. 



But I -will not further pursue this consideration, in the hope 

 that my friend, Mr. Way, who can speak ex tri])ode archceologico on 

 the subject of English gold-finds, may be tempted to give us the 

 benefit of his own observations in suhsidmm to the present im- 

 perfect references. 



One of the letters of Mr. Colenso above referred to, calls the 

 attention of his correspondents to the three other untouched 

 barrows, adjacent to the one in which the cup was discovered ; and 

 suggests that what the miners call a cross cut might be productive 



* See plate annexed. 



f This remarkable relic is figured in the Archceologia, vol. xxvi, p. 422, 

 and in Archceological Journal, vol. xiv, p. 292. 



+ See especially the ornaments figured, ibid., pp. 22, 23, and 24. 



