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 128 AN ACCOUNT OF COINS AND TREASURE 74 Eig. 74 is a portion of a ring formed of two cords like the preceding, soldered longitudinally together. Fig. 75 is a piece of ribbed wire, such as those of which the preceding have been formed. Fig. 76 is perhaps a portion of a ring formed to resemble a string of very small beads. It may be as well to notice in this place the wires of vari- ous dimensions which have been used in the formation of dif- ferent objects in this find. The larger wires almost univer- sally bear the marks of the hammer by which they have been rounded, but the smaller ones cannot have been formed by this process ; they must have been formed by drawing in some man- ner not very different from that in use at the present day. The following figures exhibit various dimensions of drawn wire which occur in this mass of treasure. 77 79 Fig. 77 appears to have been part of an armlet. Fig. 78 is a specimen of fine wire, tied into a knot with some care and trouble, but whether with any especial motive, it is not easy to pronounce. Fig. 79 is a portion of some ornament the nature of which cannot be exactly ascertained ; it appears to have originally consisted of three loops, the six ends of which have been welded together ; but the termination has been cut, and its form can scarcely be conjectured. The people of these times appear to have been exceedingly ingenious in the construction of chains, of which there are, in this find, some very elegant specimens, and which next claim notice. Fig. 80 is a fragment in the collection of Mr. Assheton ; it consists of a series of rings, compressed together in the