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originally held jewels or other ornaments, now lost. One of 

 these hollows is towards the top, and there is also one on 

 each side. The bronze around each of these depressions 

 is moulded into a conventional foliate design. Between the 

 orifice at the top, and the bottom of the pin, are eight lozenge- 

 shaped pieces of cobalt-blue glass or enamel, the greatest 

 axes of the lozenges being across the width of the pin. The 

 sixteen triansfular interstices left between the lozenges and 



Fig-. 3. Fig-. 3«. 



Enamelled Brooch from Solth Ferribv. (Actual size.) 



the sides of the fibula were filled in with sealing-wax-red 

 enamel, traces of which remain. The flange, which is very 

 massive and intact, is perforated by two circular holes (see 

 n £f- 3")- This brooch is similar in type to the Ferriby 

 examples shown on Plate XXVI., figs. 2 and 8, and is 

 attributable to the first half of the second century a.d. 



A precisely similar example to fig. 3 was found in the Victoria 



