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AN ACCOUNT OF COINS AND TREASURE Fig. 58 is somewhat similar but more elegant and complex; it consists of six wires hammered round, and tapering towards the ends, two of these have been twisted together forming three cords, and these cords again are twisted together into a rope forming the armlet ; when found it was attached to another of similar form, but just so much smaller as to allow of its lying within ; the ends of both were hammered into a four-sided tapering termination, which was fastened by a hook and eye as here represented in fig. 59. In Mr. Assheton's collection are other armlets formed of only a single rope, the threads of which are of much larger diameter, terminating in the same manner and fastened by a hook and eye; as these vary from the preceding only "in size, it has not been deemed necessary to give a figm-e of them. Fig. GO is the end of a similarly constructed armlet, | but the ends of the four wires of which it has been con-