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the patterns slightly vary from each other. This is now in the 

 strong room of the British Museum. 



Another lias been brought under my notice by my friend Mr. 

 Albert Way, from whom I have obtained an outline. It was 

 found some years ago in some part of the parish of St. Juliot, 

 also in the north part of this county. The surface decoration of 

 this is also very similar to that of the larger of the two now in 

 our Museum at Truro. Like that figured by Lysons, it is indeed 

 almost a fac simile. This Juliot treasure is believed to be still in 

 existence. It has been seen by living persons not long ago ; but 

 its present place of deposit is unknown to me. 



I find in a valuable Paper by Mr. Birch, contained in Vol. Ill 

 of the Archmologkal Journal (A.D. 1846), p. 37, mention of 

 another like golden lunette, found in the western part of this 

 County, " at Penwith." But, as the name Penwith applies only to 

 a large Hundred of this county and to no precise locality, and as 

 the place of discovery of the one engraved by Lysons is certainly 

 in that Hundred, I rather think the two referred to must be one 

 and the same, and not two different ones. 



All four of these articles were therefore found in Cornwall, at 

 places not far distant from our North Coast. 



I cannot find that any ornaments of their precise character or 

 form have been yet found in any other part of England, or in 

 Wales, or in Scotland. 



In Ireland, and in Ireland alone, this form of personal decora- 

 tion (if such it be), of the same precious metal, is of com- 

 paratively familiar occurrence underground. There are several of 

 these in the British Museum in company with the Cornish find 

 before referred to. In the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, 

 at Dublin, I found fifteen specimens in July, 186-5. They are 

 figured or described in Sir W. R. Wilde's valuable Catalogue, 

 Part III. In all, the linear form of surface ornamentation, -with 

 zig-zag, or vandyked, or diamond and lozenge-shaped, lines only, 

 without any curvilinear variation of frieze or form, is predominant, 

 as in the examples now in our Museum. One of the most re- 

 markable Avas brought over for exhibition in the Loan Museum, 

 in London, in 1862. 



I am informed that the Museums of some other places in Ire- 

 land contain like examples ; but I have not seen them. 



