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is so short as hardly to project sideways beyond the breadth 

 of the rest of the object. The name Aucissa is in each case 

 placed just above the cylinder. The pin is straight ; the 

 sheath in which its points rests, when it is fastened for use, 

 is plain and small, and often terminates in a knob. The bow 

 is roughly semi-circular ; it is a fiat narrowish band of metal, 

 widest near the hinge, and decorated only by lines and 

 beading which run along it. Enamelling seems in no case 

 to be used. This type of fibula is not confined to the name 

 Aucissa. It occurs occasionally with other names. It 

 occurs exceedingly often uninscribed, having been found 

 very commonly in many parts of the Roman Empire, north 



Fig. I. Figr. 2 . 



Aucissa Fibil.^e from South Ferriby. (Actual size.) 



of the Mediterranean, and outside it ; Almgren quotes an 

 example found as far away as the Government of Tomsk in 

 Siberia, and Tischler mentions instances from the Caucasus. 



Then follows a list of the known examples of this brooch 

 and the places where they occur. Among them are localities 

 in Italy, Germany, France, Siberia, &c. With regard to 

 its name "Avcissa," Mr. Haverfield writes: "The name 

 'Aucissa' appears to be Gaulish, or at least Celtic. It has 

 been called Etruscan or Etrusco-Roman, but names ending 

 in ' issa ' do not occur in Etruscan, while in Latin they first 

 appear in the Romance period, and then only as feminines. 

 On the contrary, they are common, as masculines, in Gaul 

 and in the Celtic lands of Central Europe. The first part of 



