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126 of the tongue is ornamented by a series of round globules arranged in lines, crossing each other at right angles.

Fig. 63 is part of the ring of a tongue similar to that represented in the preceding figure: it shews more explicitly the mode in which the pattern has been formed. It is in the collection of Mr. Assheton.

Fig. 64 is a portion of a fibula resembling one which was found in a bog near Ballymoney, in the county of Antrim, and now preserved in the public collection in Dublin. The ornament is formed by stamped lines diagonally intersecting, and the squares they enclose are made round by a circular punch. The Irish fibula is fiured in the Archæologia, vol. xvii. p. 323.

Fig. 65 is a portion of a fibula, similar to fig. 61, also octangular, but only the three external sides have been ornamented with a row of lozenges formed by a double row of impressions from a triangular punch.

Fig. 66 is a fragment cut off from some object the exact form of which cannot be ascertained or illustrated from any other specimen in this or similar discoveries. It is ornamented by punches similar to those which have been noticed upon the armlets and fibula.

The next objects are rings, also found amongst these treasures.