VIII. — Ohservcdions on the, Gold Gorgets or Lunettes found near Pad- 

 stow, and now in the Museum at Truro. —By Edward Smirke, 

 Vice-Warden of the Stannaries, President of the Royal Institution 

 of Cornwall, &c. 



THE circumstances under which the golden ornaments, on which 

 I propose to make some observations, were discovered on the 

 estate of Harlyn, near Padstow, on the north coast of Cornwall, 

 have been already recorded in the proceedings of this Society.'^ 

 It has also been, on the same occasion, stated that His Eoyal 

 Highness the Duke of Cornwall, by whom the articles were 

 claimed under the franchise of Treasure-trove, had been pleased 

 to direct that they should be deposited in the Museum of the 

 Royal Institution of this County. It has also been already stated 

 that we owe it to Mr. C. G. Prideaux Prune that the attention of 

 the members of this society was first called to this discovery, and 

 that steps were taken to secure so valuable an object of archseo- 

 logical interest for the permanent gratification of public curiosity. 



In submitting to the readers of this Journal some further 

 notice of these remarkable ornaments, I wish it to be understood 

 that I do not claim any special qualification for this task, or 

 more familiarity with this class of antiquities than many others 

 besides myself possess. But I have thought that it might be 

 acceptable to our readers, who now have the advantage of ready 

 access to the articles themselves and great facilities for close in- 

 spection, that they should be informed of the views which are 

 entertained by antiquaries respecting such personal ornaments, 

 and of the discovery of the same or very similar objects, on former 

 occasions, in this or in other countries. 



It has already been stated that, on two former occasions, such 

 ornaments as the present have been already found in this county. 

 Of these, one has been engraved by Lysons in the Cornwall 

 volume of his Magna Britannia, which, at first sight, looks like a 

 fac 'simile of the larger one of those now before us ; but, in fact, 



* See 48i/!- Annual Report (1866) of the Royal Institution of Cormvall. 



