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and lozenges. The ornament may be compared with that on many flat 

 bronze celts of an early period ; and in a few cases the triangles are filled 

 with dots, as if by the same hand that decorated the early celts with the 

 same ornament, such as that on the celt said to have been found in 

 County Limerick (Plate XII., No. 3). 



The centres of the lunulse are plain, the exact reason of which is not 

 quite evident ; the way in which the ornament is gathered to the ends and 

 spaced by bands reminds us of the plates of the jet-necklaces, ornamented 

 with triangle and lozenge ornament, which are ascribed to the end of the 

 Stone Age and the Early Bronze Age. 



Fig. l.—Trenta, Canigans, Co. Donegal. (1889:20. Wt. 1 oz. 7 dwt. 20 grs.) \. 



In an example recently obtained by the Academy from Co. Donegal 

 (fig. 2), the lines are not struck across from border to border, but stopped 

 a little short of the border. This perhaps emphasizes the likeness in 

 appearance to the jet necklaces. 



Two lunulee found together at Padstow in Cornwall are said to have 

 been found with a bronze celt of the earliest type, judging from the figure 

 in the Archaeological Journal.^ The find is preserved in the Truro Museum. 

 This is, I believe, the only instance of an associated object found with 

 lunulse. 



In several instances (see list) two, three, and four lunulse have been found 

 together. In such cases, how-ever, although several gold objects have thus 



^ Aicheeological Journal, vol. xxii., p. 277. 



