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to the dress, are more artistic in pattern, and are much more 

 elaborately ornamented (see Plate XXVI.) 



In a coloured illustration of Roman fibulae, which 

 appears in Hume's " Ancient Meols " (1863), Plate III., are 

 represented two examples, figs. 4 and 7, identical in type 

 with those from Ferriby shown on Plate XXVI., figs. 2 and 

 8. The specimen shown in figs. 1 and in of Plate XXVI. is 

 almost exactly similar to a fine Roman fibula from 

 Doncaster, figured and described in " Hull Museum Publica- 

 tion No. 27," p. 17. It is precisely similar to a specimen 

 figured in Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins' " Cave Hunting" (1874), 

 fig. 5 of frontispiece. 



Flat Brooches. Of the flat brooches there are nine, 

 some of which still retain the enamel, and others would 

 undoubtedly originally be ornamented by enamel or by 

 jewels. Some of these are exceedingly small, and as 

 they contain the remains of the spring and the catch upon 

 which the acus was fastened, they are evidently com- 

 plete, and almost bear the appearance of having been 

 toy brooches used by children. 



Perhaps the most interesting of these small examples, 

 is a very fine one, if inches in length, which is in the form 

 of a fish. This is in excellent preservation, the pin and the 

 catch being still intact (see Plate XXV., figs. 3"3«). It is 

 ornamented by blue enamel let into the bronze. 



Two other examples of fish fibulae of precisely this type 

 have been previously found in England. They are figured 

 and described in the Reliquary for October, 1902.* To the 

 proprietors of the Reliquary we are indebted for the use of the 

 illustrations herewith of the two previously recorded speci- 

 mens. On comparing these with the Ferriby example it will 

 be seen that the three are so very much alike that there can 

 be little doubt that they are from the same Roman workshop, 

 if indeed they are not the work of the same artist. Figs. 4, 4^, 

 and 46 are different views of a specimen found in London ; 

 fig. 5 gives a representation of an example found in Wiltshire. 



The following notes in reference to the previously dis- 

 covered fish-shaped fibulae are extracted from Mr. Reader's 

 paper : — 



" During the past winter [1901] Mr. A. S. Kennard and 

 myself have been investigating the site of some pile struc- 

 tures that have occurred near the street known as London 



* Vol. 8, No. 4, " Notes on an Enamelled Fish-shaped Fibula," by 

 F. W. Reader, pp. 274-276. 



