No. 8] A CELTIC RELIQUARY. 



7. 137 beads, one of vvhich is formed of silver wire, the 

 others being of glass. Some of them are fixed together, the longest 

 ones consisting of as many as seven links. The most varying 

 forms are represented, some of the beads being spherical, others 

 again flattened, barrel- formed and cylindrical. The colours are 

 White, biack, green, blue, red and violet in different shades. There 

 are also some of mosaic and a few with inlaid colours in different 

 patterns. 



8. An iron implement in the form of a bar, 48 cm. long. 

 Use uncertain. 



9. A slate whetstone, 30 cm. long, and fragments of two 

 similar ones. 



10. A Celtic reliquary given in actual size figs. 3 — 4. 

 It is constructed in the shape of a small house with a high ridged 

 roof having hipped ends and is hollowed out of two solid pieces 

 of yew-wood.^) The walls and roof have been covered with Ihin 

 piates of bronze without ornaments. On the front these are com- 

 paratively well preserved, and here three circular medallions with 

 raised horders are to be seen. Of the round plaques which once 

 filled out the panels only the upper one now remains, ihis being 

 of silver and decorated with chased Celtic spiral or trumpet designs. 

 Along the corners of the shrine have been fixed tubular curved 

 bronze mountings which served also as a frame-work to keep in 

 position the bronze piates that covered the wood. In both ends of 

 the mounting covering the ridge have been inserted projecting 

 gable-heads, rounded and decorated, of which only one remains.-) 

 To one of the ends is attached a solid bronze mounting to which 

 is hinged a bar terminating in a ring, both decorated on the face 

 with enamel. A similar one has also been placed upon the opposite 

 end, but has now disappeared. To these bars have been attached 

 the ends of a strap for suspending the shrine round the neck of 

 its "hereditary keeper". To the right of the remaining mounting 



') For the determination of the wood I am i.-idcbted to .Mr. .\I. Foslie, Keeper 

 of the Botanical Collection of the .Museum at Trondiijem. 



-) liy a mistake, the piece, being found separatel}', has been photographed 

 with the head pointing downwards instead of upwards. 



