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Rh plain hoop of silver, of the size here represented, <in<l bears the inscription. Its date has been assigned to as early a period as Saxon times, but we are inclined to attribute it to a subsequent age, the twelfth, or perhaps so late a date even as the thirteenth century. It may deserve notice that the mintage at London, of coins of Canute, Harold, Edward the Confessor, the Conqueror and subsequent kings, is designated by the legend—. On coins of Henry III., likewise, the legends—, &c. occur; whilst on those of Edward I. and subsequent sovereigns the mint is indicated by the words—. This ring was found, during the construction of the railway, at Attleborough, in Norfolk.

The annexed engraving represents one side of a leaden impression of the common seal of the Tinners of Cornwall, which was found in a field adjoining Lee-down, near Bath, in the year 1842, and passed into the valuable collection of the late Benj. Heywood Bright, Esq., of Bristol. As this remarkable and probably unique object is not generally known, the Committee have gladly availed themselves of the liberality of Mr Edward Smirke, who offered the loan of the accompanying representation, executed at his expense, for the Archæological Journal. Soon after the discovery of this impression. Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., communicated a memoir on it, to the Truro Institution, in which he observes "it measured about two inches across, and is about one-eighth of an inch in thickness. The sides are exactly alike; each of them bearing the impression of two men at work, one with a pick, the other with a shovel. In the centre is a lion's head. I have examined it carefully, and can perceive no difference whatever in the impression on the two sides. On the contrary, even