294 SAXON SILVER ORNAMENTS AND COINS. 



beyond Exeter, A.D. 877, Mention is also made of the Danes 

 being on the coast of Devon with 23 ships in 878. Cornwall 

 would then have been in a state of alarm and disquiet, especially 

 the coast ; and the fear of a landing of the enemy in St. Austell 

 Bay may have occasioned the burial of this hoard, which after- 

 wards lay hid, unknown and undisturbed, for nine centuries. 



A carefully comj)iled Table of Mr. Jonathan Eashleigh's coins 

 is appended, in which every reign is distinguished, and the various 

 types and names of the different moneyers are given, with the 

 exact weight of each coin in grains ; followed by a Comparative 

 Table of the contents of the two hoards. 



I am not aware that any personal or other ornaments were 

 found at Gravesend; and it Is in this respect that the two hoards 

 mainly differ. Amongst the ornaments found at Trewhiddle, all 

 of which are of a rare period, two articles are conspicuous, i.e., 

 the silver cup, and the silver clisciplinarmm. The Eeverend Dr. 

 Eock, who has seen them, does not hesitate to pronounce the use 

 of the latter to have been rightly conjectured. The former has 

 been considered to be a sacramental cup ; but Dr. Eock and other 

 eminent archseologists think that its use was not sacred, but 

 secular, as it is believed that sacramental cups of that date were 

 never made with a rim at the edge, such as this has. 



Upon one embossed ring, or ferule, of silver, a Cross is en- 

 graved ; and this sjmibol of Christianity, coupled with the use of 

 the disciplinarimn, may have led to the conjecture that the cup 

 was also of sacred use. 



It only remains that I should acknowledge the great assistance 

 which Mr. Jonathan Eashleigh has rendered me in the endeavour 

 to record more minutely than had been clone before, this inter- 

 esting Cornish hoard ; especially by furnishing me with the care- 

 ful Tables of Coins which are appended. 



Those who desire to pursue the subject further are referred to 

 descriptions of two other Saxon hoards, i.e., that discovered at 

 Cuerdale, in Lancashire, in 1840, (Numismatic Chronicle, vol. v, 

 pp. 1-119); and that at Croydon, Surrey, discovered in 1862, 

 (Num. Chron., vol. ii, new series, p. 302, and vol. iv, p. 232). The 

 former of these contained 7000 coins, and was buried about A.D. 

 901 ; the latter about 250, supposed to have been buried A.D. 

 872. 



