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 190 AN ACCOUNT OF COINS AND TREASURE surface is quite flat and smooth ; the teeth, hmbs, &c., are all ])roduccd by repeated blows of a small punch ; not by casting or by chasing. Of knobs similar to number 89 there are several specimens of different sizes. Fig. 90 is entire, and ap- pears to have been the orna ment at the end of a stra] Avhich has been inserted into a slit, and fastened by two rivets The principal ornament is composed of a sort of cross ^vitli a square in the centre, and a triangle at the end of each limb ; in each angle is a dragon. The whole of this ornament appears to have been produced by the hammer and punch, not by the graver. Fig. 91 is a small fragment similarly manufactured, and ornamented with portions of a snake or dragon. Eigg. 92 93 are smah fragments, the ornaments of which are similarly produced, and are here engraved as specimens of the kind of patterns which are occasionally constructed by instruments very rude and apparently hiadequate to the purpose. Fig. 94 is a very singular and in- teresting object, the application of which cannot be correctly ascer- tained; it consists of a plate of silver, with a raised border com- posed of a row of small beads be- fC^ tween two straight lines ; within this border has been fitted another plate of silver, worked into a very intricate pattern of lines intersect- ing and intertwining with each '-'^ other, amongst which appear heads of serpents, and perhaps a lion. Knobs with cord-like wire round their bases serve at once for ornaments and rivets. The spaces between the lines are perforated.