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Cave, Settle, Yorks., which was discovered in 1838. Various 

 descriptions of the discoveries then made, and which involved 

 several items similar to those found at Ferriby, have been 

 printed. In the account of the cave and its contents in 

 Professor Dawkins' "Cave Hunting" (1874, pp. 81-125), 

 reference is made to this brooch : — " One harp-shaped brooch 

 is ornamented with diamonds of blue enamel, separated by 

 small triangles of red, and shows in its Roman design and 

 Celtic ornamentation the union between Celtic and Roman 

 art. A similar specimen from B rough Castle, Westmorland, 

 is preserved in the British Museum, and may have been 

 turned out of the same workshop." From the coloured 

 figure of the Victoria Cave specimen which appears on the 

 frontispiece of Professor Dawkins' book, there is evidently 

 a very great similarity in the specimen from Settle and 

 Ferriby. 



Others are shown in Plate XXVI., figs. 1-6, etc. Most of 

 these date from the first half of the second century. Of some 

 of the fibulae it is difficult to say whether enamel has really been 

 inserted in the incisions or not. The brooches are generally 

 of bronze, one or two are of iron, and a few are silvered, 

 if, indeed, they are not made entirely of that metal. The 

 enamelled harp fibula? are of two types, namely, those with 

 the acus or pin working loosely on a short hinge, and with a 

 flat foot or base near the point of the pin ; this form is usually 

 provided with a loop or ring at the top of the brooch for 

 fastening to the garment. The other type, the T fibula, has a 

 very wide hinge or crosspiece, and generally has the opposite 

 end pointed, though occasionally a rounded foot appears as 

 in the other examples. Whilst the brooches are generally in 

 a fair state of preservation, and do not appear to be much 

 damaged, it occasionally happens that they are twisted and 

 bent in a curious manner. The pins are frequently preserved, 

 and though generally of bronze, are apparently occasionally 

 of iron ; possibly in some cases where the pin is missing, 

 they were of iron also. Some of these brooches, as, for 

 example, the large one already referred to, contain deep 

 holes or grooves, which have evidently originally held 

 jewels. Unfortunately these are mostly missing. The 

 various devices adopted for giving a spring to the acus are 

 very instructive. In some cases the bronze wire has been 

 twisted round and brought under a catch on the top of the 

 brooch ; in others the spring is held in position underneath 

 the brooch. Some of the fibulae, which are provided with 

 loops at the top by means of which they would be sewn on 



