DISCOVERY OF A GOLD CUP IN CORNWALL. 39 



of further discoveries of interest in that unexplored ground. As 

 yet I have not heard whether this useful hint has awakened the 

 curiosity of our Cornish co-adventurers in this field of metal- 

 lifodine enterprise. Considering that this Northern district has 

 already produced the lunettes of Padstow and of St. Juliot, to 

 say nothing of the lost aTpsTrrov of Looe Down, of which I 

 reminded my Cornish friends in October, 1866,*' I cannot forbear 

 to hope that they will find out some /' Stannary process" for 

 facilitating the exploration of the other Eillaton tumuli. 



I cannot refrain from mentioning here, that, during the presi- 

 dency of the Prince Consort over the Duchy Council, an incident 

 occurred which may supply a laudable example to lords of manors 

 elsewhere. When an application was made, in my own recol- 

 lection, by the contractors of some great works near Plymouth, 

 for a lease or liberty to quarry granite, at a tonnage or royalty, 

 in Eillaton manor, the council prohibited the removal or quarrying 

 of any within a certain prescribed distance from the Cheese-wring. 

 That colossal pile of tabular slabs of rock, — so often visited as a geo- 

 logical phenomenon ; or as a picturesque object ; or as a Druidical 

 altar or idol, according to the more favourite local opinion ; — 

 standing in the midst of the Caradon copper mine district a few 

 miles north of Liskeard, has thus been protected from demolition. 



SUPPLEMENTARY NOTICES, RELATING TO THE GOLD CUP FOUI^D IN 

 A SEPULCHRAL CIST NEAR THE CHEESE-WRING, AND ALSO TO 

 SOME OTHER GOLD RELICS IN CORNWALL. 



It is remarkable that amongst the numerous objects of gold 

 found in Creat Britain none should have occurred, as I believe, of 

 the like description as the cup which, by the gracious favor of her 

 Majesty, we are now permitted to publish. The precious relics 

 heretofore brought to light have been exclusively of the nature of 

 personal ornaments. In Ireland, as Sir W. E. Wilde informs us,t 



* Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornivall, voL ii, pp. 138, 139. 

 •f- Catalogue of the Antiquities of the Royal Irish Academy, by Sir W. E. 

 Wilde, Metallic Materials, p. 355 ; Antiquities of Gold, p. 1. 



