DISCOVERY OF A GOLD CUP IN CORNWALL. 47 



mating in an enlarged flat end ratlier more than a quarter of an 

 inch in diameter. The dilated terminal knobs, varying from the 

 simple button-shaped terminations, that first take a slightly cup- 

 ped form, and gradually expand until they assume the broad 

 saucer-like fashion of the so-called "mammillary brooches," are 

 characteristic of Irish penannular ornaments.* The second relic 

 of gold is a portion of a more massive j)enannular object, a cupped 

 "fibula" of unusually large dimensions, and of a type almost 

 exclusively Irish, t It was found near the Lizard, in a district of 

 Western Cornwall replete with early remains, and is now pre- 

 served in the British Museum. The length of this fragment is 

 3 in., its weight 5^ oz. It formed part of Payne Knight's Col- 

 lection. The " calicinated " extremity must have been of unusual 

 breadth, when perfect; the portion that remains measures If in. 

 in diameter. The largest brooch of this description in the Museum 

 of the Royal Irish Academy weighs 16 oz. 17 dwt. 4 gr., the 

 cupped disc at each of its extremities measures 5 inches in 

 diameter. It will be noticed in the woodcut, that the bow or 

 handle of the Cornish fragment is lozenge-shaped, a variety of 

 fashion that occurs in Irish specimens, but no example is figured 

 by Sir W. Wilde. I have seen only one other "mammillary 

 brooch " found in England ; it was figured in my Memoir on 

 Ancient Gold Ornaments in the Archceolgkal Joitrnal, vol. vi, p. 

 61, having been brought before the Institute by Mrs. Dan by 

 Harcourt, through Mr. Charles Tucker. This specimen, weighing 

 5 oz. 7 dwts. 22 gr., was found at Swinton Park, Yorkshire. Two 

 similar objects are noticed by Gough as found, in 1780, near 

 Ripon. 



It is very remarkable, as Mr. Blight observes, that all the 

 Cornish gold ornaments have their counterparts in Ireland. I 

 have much pleasure in being enabled to publish representations 

 of these remarkable relics that have become known to me through 

 his courtesy. 



ALBERT WAY. 



* See Sir W. Wilde's Catalogue, Antiqu. of Gold, Mus. Eoy. I. Acad., 

 pp. 52-75. 



t lUd. ; compare Nos. 120, 122, 593, &c, 



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