DISCOVERY OF A GOLD CUP IN CORNWALL. 43 



A few other golden relics found in Great Britain and on the 

 Continent claim notice, in connection with the subject of the 

 curious discovery brought before us by the gracious consideration 

 of the Queen. 



Of the great hoard of gold that was brought to light by the 

 plough a few years since near Hastings, consisting chiefly it is 

 believed of torques, armlets, and the like, some fragments only 

 escaped speedy destruction in the melting-pot. Two of these are 

 now in the British Museum ; they have been figured in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Society of Afitiquaries, and apparently may have 

 been portions of broad armlets, resembling that before figured 

 found in Lincolnshire, or of some similar ornament.''' They bear 

 the same stamp of workmanship, the ribs with the lines of stip- 

 pled markings between them. 



Of similar workmanship is a broad gold bracelet in j)ossession 

 of Lord Panmure, at Brechin Castle, N. Britain, figured in 

 Wilson^ s Prehistoric Annals of Scotland. It is of thin metal, ham- 

 mered up, and formed with five ribs or corrugated bands, and 

 slight corded ornaments between them. This ornament, of which 

 a portion is lost, was found at Camuston, Angus, in a cist, under 

 an erect stone sculj)tured with a cross. A large skeleton lay in 

 the cist ; part of the skull had been cut away : an urn, ornamented 

 with zig-zag patterns, was also found with this deposit, tradition- 

 ally regarded as the remains of the leader of the Danish marauders 

 slain there by Malcolm II, about the close of the seventh century. 

 The interment, however, was doubtless of a much earlier period. 

 The fashion of this Scottish specimen seems to be precisely 



inner side of these shields, and serving for the attachment of straps by 

 which they were held on the arm, termed in after times enarmes, and also 

 for that which passed over the neck or shoulder. It is then clear that there 

 could not have been, as conjectured, any substantial lining, even of hide, 

 upon which the corrugated bronze was affixed. The defensive quality of 

 such a shield, insufficient as it would appear, may as I believe have been 

 materially augmented by its corrugated construction. See notices of the 

 principal examples of these shields in my Catalogue of Antiquities in posses- 

 sion of the Society of Antiquaries, and in An Account of Specimens found 

 near Yetholm, Roxburghshire, recently published by the Antiquaries of Scot- 

 land. — 



* Proceedings Soc. Ant., vol ii, new series, p. 247. A full account of the 

 discovery at Hastings may be found in the Ti'ansactions of the Sussex Archao- 

 logical Society. 



