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 130 AN ACCOUNT OF COINS AND TREASURE FOUND IN CUERDALE. might Lave been used as a button or fastening of some sort ; but, amongst a number of objects of similar age and character discovered in Denmark, three or four of hke form, plain or ornamented with triangular punches, occurred, one of which was suspended, with some plain round wires, to a small ring; the whole having the appearance of an ornament of dress. It is very probable that it may have had some sym- bolical meaning. Fig. 86 has now the appearance of a hook ; it has been hannnered into its present form, but whether it was formed into a hook originally, or was afterwards acciden- tally bent into that form, may be ^g doubted. It may have been originally suspended from a ring, like the Danish ornament just mentioned; or perhaps, more probably, it was the tongue of a fibula. Fig. 87. There are two objects of this form ; both are entire, no piece having been cut off, as is the case with by far the greater number of objects of which this find was composed. They are formed entirely by the hammer, very rudely, and are apparently unfinished. For what they were intended is a matter of uncertainty, as no finished ornament of similar form has been discovered. I propose to notice in a future number the objects forming the next class of ornaments, which are of a very different character from those which have already been described, both in their style of workmanship and in the nature of the devices with which they are decorated. EDWARD HAWKINS.