No. 8] A CELTIC RELIOUARY. 



As previously mentioned the objects vvere presented to the Mu- 

 seum at different times, No's 1 — 9 in the enumeration belovv being 

 found in 1902, the rest five years later. Though the objects found 

 in 1902 have already been described by Mr. K. Rygh in the 

 Proceedings of the Ko3'al Society for that year, No. 6, pp. 3 — 6, 

 and the rest will be treated by the same author in the list of 

 additions to the Museum for 1907, I think, hovvever, that a 

 description of the find published in a coUected form will be more 

 profitable for archæologists, some of the antiquities being of a 

 peculiar interest. As the objects have been brought to light succes- 

 sively and in a haphazard manner, I have not been able to point 

 out their exact place in the grave. In the foUowing publication 

 of the find I therefore prefer first to describe the antiquities in the 

 same order in which they have been found, as far as I have been 

 able to make it out; then I shall state the results of the excavation 

 undertaken by the Museum. 



The find contains the following objects: 



1,^) An iron spear-head vvith a broad, fiat blade showing 

 Damascene work with impressed elliptical figures on the socket 

 (comp. R. 517). The total length is now 33 cm., the socket being 

 a little incomplele; the blade reaching a breadth of 5 cm. 



2. Apairofscissorsof the same shape as R. 442, one 

 blade being broken in the middle, the other nearly complete. The 

 length about 28 cm. 



3. A bronze fibula of the type R. 639, the length not 

 less than 24 cm. The specimen is exceptionally well preserved, 

 the piates covering the open spaces and filled with Cloisonné 

 Enamel as well as most of the hoods or bosses placed upon them, 

 being still extant. The sloping surfaces of the bow. and partly 

 also the side surfaces of the brooch are richly ornamented with 

 zoomorphic designs. A detailed description is, however, super- 

 fluous, the photographic reproductions indicating the form of the 

 brooch as well as the details of the ornaments. The figures 

 5—6 show the brooch in reduced size and withoul the circular 



') In descrihing No's 1 — 9, I partially vcrbatiin follow .\lr. I\. R y i; h 1. c. 



