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of the canap, which, although of the general character of Romano- 

 British ware bear impressed ornamentation, quite distinct from 

 anything found generally on either Bronze Age or Roman pottery, 

 and in one or two cases apparently closely resembling patterns on 

 pottery found on the Glastonbury lake dwelling site. 



It is probable, too, that the chalk loom weights, the pottery sling 

 stones,^ the pottery rings, the bone weaving combs, and other bone 

 implements, found in pit dwellings at Beckhampton, Oldbury, and 

 elsewhere, may some or all of them be of the Late Celtic rather 

 than the Romano-British time, to which they have been hitherto 

 generally attributed ; as may, also, be many of the iron spear-heads, 

 &c., found when the surface of the downs was broken up, and 

 hitherto labelled " Anglo Saxon." 



These, however, bear nothing distinctively " Late Celtic " in 

 character about them, and it is with objects which from their 

 style and ornamentation seem to have been made rather under 

 Celtic than Roman influence that the following notes are con- 

 cerned, and more especially with certain classes of bronze fibulae 

 to which so much attention has been directed, of late years, by 

 Professor Ridgeway, Mr. Reginald Smith, Dr. Arthur Evans, and 

 others, following on the earlier writings of Gen. Pitt Rivers. 



With regard to the bronze brooches of the safety-pin class, 

 which were formerly lumped together under the head of " Roman " 

 in museums, it has come to be generally recognized that they 

 present a series of which the later examples have been clearly 

 evolved by certain definite steps from the earlier, and that in the 

 various stages of their evolution they — if these different stages 

 can be approximately dated — may form most valuable criteria for 

 the age of the objects with which they are found associated.^ 



Mr. Reginald Smith has called attention, in the Guide to the 



' Great numbers of these pottery sling stones were found in the lake village 

 of Glastonbury. 



- In the accompanying descriptions of fibulae I have followed the nomen- 

 clature of the British Museum Guide, which regards the spring end of the 

 fibula as the ^'head" and the catch end as the "foot." Gen. Pitt Kivers 

 spoke of the catch end as the " nose," and Mr. Komilly Allen generally calls 

 it the " tail," 



