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AN ACCOUNT OV COINS AND TREASURE The first to be noticed are ingots ; these are of very different forms and dimensions, some are oblong, abont 3| inches long, li wide, and | thick ; they have been cast in a monld, pro- bably of metal, but perhaps of baked clay, as traces of cracks appear on the nnder side of some of them, v^diicli are proofs also that several ingots have been cast in the same mould ; the surface of others shews that some of the moulds were Jife marked with a cross, fig. 1. These ingots are not adjusted to any particular weight, those cast even in the same mould vary- ing much in weight ; some weighing between 3900 and 4000 grains. For the ingots of smaller size also metal-moulds seem - *>-=^JtA<i^ to have been used, fig. 2, but by far the greater number of these have been cast in rude hollows formed in sand by the finger, or perhaps a stick ; these vary in weight from upwards of 2000 grains to less than 100, and in size from 4^ inches long to ^ an hich, figs. 3, 4, 5 linnps of silver dropt upon a flat surface, and wcighingi'rom about 12 to 70 grains, figs. G, 7, 8. In many instances, There arc also some mere