GOLD GORGETS OR LUNETTES. 137 



engraving {Arclmological Journal, Vol. Ill, pp. 36, 37), one found 

 at St. Ayr, in Normandy, very closely resembles the Cornish 

 lunettes in respect both of form and surface enrichment. It is 

 figured, with others, in the Memoirs of the Norman Society of Anti- 

 quaries (1827, 1828). 



We are indebted to Mr. Bathurst Deane for a very detailed 

 notice of a like discovery in the ancient Bretagne, near Quentin, 

 in 1832. A peasant, in search of buried treasure on the site of 

 one of those monumental lithic remauis, which remind the visitor 

 of that district so strongly of the western moors and granite 

 wastes of Cornvfall, disinterred no fewer than twelve such articles 

 of gold, valued at £1000 and upwards, and weighing, on the 

 whole, 21 lbs. Of these, ten are engraved in the plates illustrating 

 Mr. Bathurst Deane's Memoir in Vol. 27 of Archceologia, read to 

 the Society of Antiquaries in February, 1836; and seven of these 

 bear a strong general resemblance to the Irish and Cornish types. 

 Numbers 1 and 12 in the engraving have rather the character of 

 solid necklets or collars, to which the name of tore is more com- 

 monly assigned. The others seem also of a more solid and 

 less flexible kind than the thin and broad laminae which form the 

 Irish type of lunettes; but the mode of ornament strictly re- 

 sembles the zig-zag and linear character of those now before us. 

 Engravings of some of them will be found also in Mr. Akerman's 

 Archceologicallnclex, Plate VII, in which Nos. Ill to 115 exemplify 

 my observation. 



Some near approach to these ornaments will be also found in 

 the Museum of Antiquitie^ at Copenhagen ; of which the reader 

 will find copious illustrations in the volume by the learned 

 Worsaae — Nordiske Oldsager, &c., (1859), and in Lord EUes- 

 mere's Gkdde to Northern Archceologij* (published in 1848), com- 

 piled from Danish authorities. They are, by northern antiquaries, 

 classed among hair ornaments or Diadems; to the purposes of 

 which some are certainly applicable, and were probably intended 

 to be so applied. The zig-zag line ornament, though occasionally 

 occurring both in the bronze and gold examples, is not so pre- 

 dominant as in our Irish and Cornish types. Indeed, I cannot say 

 that the Scandinavian examples can be strictly regarded as clearly 

 belonging to the same type. 



As to the use of these lunettes, or the precise mode of wearing 



