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of Scandinavian type.1 It is 3 1/4 inches high and has a handle, weighs 2 oz. 10 dwts., and is ornamented with horizontal undulations over the whole surface. A gold armlet at Sancreed, and a gold fibula at the Lizard are considered to be Celtic, as is certainly the Trelan mirror (see p. 229). For some Roman finds see p. 16 above.

At Trewhiddle near St. Austell were found with the coins named on the next page a gold circular pendant enriched with filigree, and another gold object, a (broken) silver cup, a silver cord with knotted scourge at the end believed to be a 'disciplinary, and several other objects of interest including an embossed silver ring on which a cross is engraved. See Archæologia vol. ix, p. 187 and Jrnl. R.I.C. vol. ii, p. 292.

COINS.

These consist of British (pre-Roman) coins, and of coins of many of the Roman emperors, a few early, but the greater part of the third century and later.2 About one thousand, mostly of Constantine I, were found at Pennance near Falmouth some years since. A large collection of gold coins was found on Carn Brea in Illogan about the middle of the 18th century, some of which were described and figured by Dr.Borlase. They were imitations of the stater of Philip of Macedon, and date from about 150 B.C. Accounts of many other hoards will be found in the volumes of Jrnl. R.I.C. In volume xiii will be found an illustration of a coin of Micipsa, king of Numidia in the second century B.C., found on Carn Brea.

'So far as the west of Cornwall�the Land s End district� is concerned, the finds recorded are far more numerous than those of the richest locality in the sister county. Cornwall has also furnished more important hoards. Thus near Malpas 20 lbs. weight were found (A.D. 259-284); at Pennance near Falmouth about a thousand, which appear to have been buried in the reign of Constantine the Great; and at Condora, on the Helford River, in 1735, twenty-four gallons, third brass of the Constantine family. There are also smaller hoards recorded from Carn Brea, Treryn,

1 See Jrnl. R.I.C. vol. iii. p. 34 and p. 48 for illustrations of this and other finds.

2 On the Roman coins in Cornwall see Borlase, Nænia p. 255 et seq.