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newspapers of the time. Those which survived were given to Mr. 
Edwards, who generously placed them at my disposal, and I have 
since, with his sanction, added them to the National collection of 
antiquities in the British Museum. The mirror is an object of 
great rarity ; it is circular in form, six inches in diameter, with a 
well-formed handle which projects 24 inches from its edge. My. 
Edwards informs me that when it was found, one side was quite 
brightly polished. The whole mirror is now richly covered with 
erugo, but a portion of the polished surface is still discernible. 
Both front and back are perfectly flat, and although the plate is 
very thin, it has no appearance, as some have, of having been 
furnished with a strengthening rim. Around the margin of the 
back an ornament is delicately punched : it consists of the repeti- 
tion of a small triangular figure, + of an inch in height, whose 
united bases form one circle, and whose apices touch another circle 
close to the outer edge. The effect is that of a frilled vandyke 
ornament around the entire circle of the mirror; the central space 
within this frilling is partially occupied by two circles, placed side 
by side as the mirror is held in the hand, leaving the spandrils 
above and below quite plain. These two circles are irregularly 
filled with discs and curves of various diameters; the spaces 
between them being occasionally hatched with the impression of 
a punch, somewhat similar to that used in the marginal frilling ; 
some of these punch-marks precisely resemble those represented 
as occurring on the back of a bronze mirror found in 1863 at 
Stamford Hill, near Plymouth, and figured in Archeologia, vol. xl, 
502, plate, fig.1. The handle is cast in the form of a loop, whose 
expanded ends are grooved for the insertion of the edge of the 
mirror. The workmanship is excellent, and its condition nearly 
perfect. (See the accompanying woodcut). 
A comparison of this Trelan mirror with others found else- 
where may be interesting. Five other distinct finds are recorded, 
viz., four in England, and one in Scotland ; and although none of 
the examples resemble this in every respect, it can scarcely be 
doubted that the Trelan mirror belongs to the same period of art 
to which the rest are assigned by the best authorities. 
1. The earliest in point of date is that which was found in the 
year 1763 by Revd. Bryan’ Faussett at Gilton, a Saxon Cemetery 
near Sandwich in Kent. It is figured in plate xii of Mr. Roach 
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