392 Notes on Objects of Late Celtic Character found in Wiltshire. 



1886, and is now in the British Museum. Dr. Arthur Evans 

 concludes, from certain details on our own bucket, however, that 

 it was not made in Britain, but was imported from Armorica, as 

 were many coins (such for instance as the Gaulish coin from 

 Swindon, illustrated in Wilts Arch. Mag. xxxiv., 311) found in the 

 southern counties of Britain.^ 



Of the pottery of this period it is difficult as yet to speak with 

 any certainty so far as our own county is concerned. No fragments 

 of the characteristic " cordoned " vessels have yet been found ; on 

 the other hand it seems likely that the remarkable vessel found 

 at Latton (illustrated, Wilts Arch. Mag., xxx., 303), now in the 

 collection of Mr. A. D. Passmore, of Swindon, is nearly related to 

 the "pedestalled" urns, so characteristic of Late Celtic burials, both 

 in the cemeteries of the Marne, and in various localities in Southern 

 Britain. This vessel was remarkable for its brown colour as well 

 as for its smoothly tooled surface, and it is to be noticed that 

 fragments of a similar red-brown ware, bearing the same highly 

 tooled surface, have been found at various localities in Wiltshire, 

 associated with remains that may indeed in many cases be Romano- 

 British or may almost equally well be of a somewhat earlier date. 

 The two cooking vessels of plain smooth polished ware without 

 rims, found in dwelling pits on Oldbury Hill (figured Wilts Arch. 

 Mag., xxvli., 291 — 294), are the most perfect specimens of this 

 ware, but fragments of precisely similar ware have been found at 

 Oliver's Camp, Cold Kitchen Hill, in dwelling pits at Beckhampton, 

 and elsewhere. It seems not unlikely that this red brown tooled 

 or polished ware may eventually prove to be of the Late Celtic 

 rather than the Bomano-British period. 



There are, too, the fragments of the large coarse red ware vessel 

 found in the silting of the ditch at Oliver's Camp, in 1907, and 

 believed to be of pre-Roman date. Again, from Lyddington Camp, 

 in the north of the county, Mr. Passmore has a number of small 

 fragments of pottery, obtained from flint diggings within the area 



' Mr. A. D. Passmore has a few small fragments of iron with bronze studs 

 like brass-headed nails from Lyddington Camp, which seem to be remnants 

 of a Late Celtic bucket. 



