. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. posed person was detected, having broken off theface of the abbot, endeavouring to steal it. On the shoulders of thisfigure appear to be carved the remains of two of these St. PatricksCrosses. Should subsequent investigation confirm my conjecture wewill obtain a valuable link in the history of these objects, and bringdown the period of their employment for ecclesiastical dress ornamentto a comparative late date. Paet II.—Gold Patricks Crosses—a. further Contribution toTHE History of Gold Ornaments found in Ireland. We are now in a posit
. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. posed person was detected, having broken off theface of the abbot, endeavouring to steal it. On the shoulders of thisfigure appear to be carved the remains of two of these St. PatricksCrosses. Should subsequent investigation confirm my conjecture wewill obtain a valuable link in the history of these objects, and bringdown the period of their employment for ecclesiastical dress ornamentto a comparative late date. Paet II.—Gold Patricks Crosses—a. further Contribution toTHE History of Gold Ornaments found in Ireland. We are now in a position to inquire whether our Museums in theirstores of Irish antiquities preserve for us any decorative ornaments thatwould correspond with those sculptured disks in stone and bronze,bearing the Christian symbol of a central Greek or eastern cross, if soit should enable us to throw further light upon their history. Porexample, if found complete they ought to occur in pairs, for so werethey worn on each shoulder according to the numerous ecclesiastical. Circular Plate of Gold in Collection, Science and Art Museum. representations already enumerated, I restrict the present inquiry toCeltic Ireland, for the Continent has yielded a considerable number ofMaltese or Greek crosses with equal-sized arms, made from thinlaminae of gold, similar in this respect to ours, and likewise having eachtwo perforations for attaching them to the dress of the Avearer, a markedfeature in the Celtic gold crosses, as I hope to show, but differing in nothaving around the cross the circular golden disk. These are obtainedfrom Gaulish and Germanic cemeteries, and from graves in Lombardy,so that in one sense they are not distinctively Irish and Celtic, but 40 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND. appear to show a mucli wider Continental distribution, the limits of•^hich it would be very instructive to investigate. A long list of theseContinental gold crosses is contained in the Gazette Archeo
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