The text panel accompanying the plate states:
PLATE V.
26. A FLAT gold crescent-shaped ornament, called in Ireland a mind, considered to have been worn on the head as a sort of diadem or tiara. It is a thin plate of gold about an inch and a half across at its greatest width, decreasing gradually to the ends which terminate in a triangular piece, twisted round at right angles to the band; these pieces when the diadem is placed on the head, bend round so as to rest on top of the ear.
27. A gold torc-shaped Armilla formed of a single flat piece twisted spirally with a plain hook at each end; found at Urquhart, Elgin, Scotland, with several others, under a large stone.
28. A plain gold Armilla with slightly enlarged and cupped ends; found at Reach, near Cambridge.
29 and 30. Two Fibulae found near Belfast in 1850. They are of solid gold, the handle or connecting bow of each is decorated with longitudinal grooves. From Ireland.
33. A plain penannular gold Ring, made of successive pieces of gold, alternately of different colours. This specimen may have been ring-money; it weighs 16dwt. 7 grains, and was found at Drogheda in 1853.
34. A small crescent-shaped penannular gold ring with pointed ends; it weighs 2 dwt. 10 grains, and was found at Tenbury, Worcestershire in 1863.
35. Two gold Armillae, similar to No. 28.
All the above are half the size of the originals and from the Collection of John Evans, Esq.
This is part of the Volume: AL2029 Album of photographs of archaeological finds displayed at the National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds in 1868; within the Collection: WXC01 Photographically illustrated book written by William Chaffers of archaeological finds displayed at an exhibition in Leeds in 1868
Source: Historic England Archive
Photographer: Cundall & Fleming
Archaeology, Art And Design, Exhibition
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