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 FOUND IN CUERDALE. 191 ^■^ Fig. 95 is only a fragment of what must originally have been a very rich ornament ; it consists of a plate of silver, the under side of which has two broad grooves, into which probably some other object has been fitted. The upper side is decorated with circular knobs, of various sizes, encircled by one, two, or three wires, indented transversely so as to give the appearance of a row of beads, or, diagonally, to look like cord. Similar wires are also used across or along the object, to give richness to the pattern. Fig. 90 is a small specimen of a similar descrip- tion of workmanship; a wire transversely marked to imitate a twist, has been soldered alono- the edoe of the object, round the small pellets com})osing the rosette, and round the circle, in the centre of which was probably a button hke fig. 89. Fig. 97 is a fragment of some object of the form of which C 97 we are ignorant ; the decoration at the end was probably in- tended to represent a di-agon's head. The terminating cii-cle has on the one side a sunk round hole, into which probably a corresponding projection has fitted and formed a sort of iiinge; the other side of this circular portion is slightly onmmentcd.