considerable neatness ; nothing very skilful about them, but by no 

 means of commonplace workmanship ; and it would be a subject 

 for inquiry hereafter, whether they were of native execution, or 

 imported from some distant parts where there were more skilful 

 workmen. 



In connection with these lunulse, which, it had been supposed, 

 were worn as ornaments by Druids, Dr. Barham mentioned that 

 Mr. Eashleigh of Menabilly had in his possession a (so-called) 

 golden Knife, which, it was supposed, had been used by Druids in 

 cutting the sacred mistletoe ; and concerning which, Mr. Eashleigh 

 had written, stating the opinion that it was a crook, supposed to 

 have been used by Druids to pull down the mistletoe. Mr. Eash- 

 leigh adds that a good drawing of it is given in Archceologia, Vol. 

 1 2, p. 408, fig. 8 ; and that its material was believed to be a mixed 

 metal, containing, he imagined, some gold. It was, he believed, 

 the only antiquity of the kind in existence ; and, from its small 

 size, he surmised that it was worn as an ornament, attached by 

 means of a perforated hole, to some part of the druidical dress. 

 -t-Dr. Barham stated that a Paper on the subject of this piece of 

 antiquity, had been contributed by an ancestor of Mr. Eashleigh, 

 to the Philosophical Transactions, and that its mineral constituents 

 were there given, from chemical analysis. Concerning the lumdce 

 themselves, Dr. Barham mentioned that previous to their dis- 

 covery, the only similar articles found in Cornwall were, one in the 

 British Museum, and figured in Lysons, originally in the possession 

 of Mr. Price, father of the late Sir Eose Price, of Trengwainton, 

 and which was also mentioned by Polwhele, and another found in 

 the parish of St. Julyot, the present possessor of which is unknown. 



Dr. Jago read the following Lists of Presents : — 



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DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



Gold Lunulas, and Bronze Celt, found at Har- Presented by H.B.H. the 



lyn, near Padstow, in 1863 Prince of Wales, by whom 



the value of the gold was 

 paid to the finder. — A con- 

 siderable further charge 

 was defrayed by Viscount 

 Falmouth, Mrs. Mary Prid- 

 eaux Brune, Mr. F. M. 

 Williams, M.P., Mr. Aug- 

 ustus Smith, Mr. J. T. H. 

 Peter, Mr.Prideaux Brune, 

 Mr. Tremayne, Mr. Enys, 

 and Mr. Smirke. 



Four Ancient Tin Shovels From P. J. Hext, Esq., Tre- 



dethy. 



