II. — Saxon Silver Ornaments and Coins founds at TreivhiddU, near 

 St. Austell, A.D. 1774. — By John Jope Rogers, Penrose. 



THE Ninth Volume of Archoeologia (page 187) contains a brief 

 notice, by Mr. Philip Rashleigh, of this discovery, which oc- 

 curred on ISTovember 8, 1774, during the process of streaming for 

 tin, about seventeen feet below surface, in a tenement, parcel of 

 the manor of Trewhicldle, in the valley below St. Austell. 



That notice was read before the Society of Antiquaries in 

 1788, and is illustrated by a very accurately engraved plate, which 

 represents the silver ornaments, together with two objects in gold, 

 and one of the coins of Burgred's reign. Scarcely any descrip- 

 tion of the Ornaments is given; and although the Coins were 

 numerous, and comprised some very rare types, very little is said 

 about them. 



Out of about 114 Coins originally secured, 70 are preserved 

 in the Cabinet of Mr. Jonathan Rashleigh, 5 are still at Penrose, 

 and 12 others, now lost sight of, were long in the hands of the 

 Beverend Richard Hennah of St. Austell ; whilst almost all the 

 Ornaments, excepting the two objects in gold, remain at Penrose. 



It may be interesting to Antiquaries that we should rescue 

 from oblivion what else can be learnt of this interesting hoard, 

 before its component parts shall have suffered from lapse of time, 

 or from dispersion. 



The hoard consisted of the two gold objects, since lost, one of 

 them being a circular pendant ornament enriched -vvith filagree ; a 

 silver chalice-shaped cup, broken into several pieces, the hollow of 

 the bowl having suffered much from oxydation; a silver cord 

 (considered to have been a " disciplinarium ") of curious work- 

 manship, terminated in four knobbed lashes, like a scourge, at 

 one end, whilst the other end was looped and rove through a 

 dark mottled amulet of glass ; a penannular brooch ; the tip of a 

 belt ; buckles ; richly-chased bands, supposed to have been brace- 

 lets ; a long curved pin, the head . of which is curiously fashioned 

 with fourteen facets chased in various ornamental patterns and 

 partly nielloed. There were also about 114 silver pennies, con- 



