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This fibula, however, had no known connection with the settlement. 

 It is, I gather from Mr. Smith, the only one of the type as yet 

 found in the British Isles ; he says: "It is altogether exceptional. 

 It is a development of the Certosa type (see Guide to the Iron Age, p. 

 41), and should be contemporary with, or earlier than," La Tene I.," 

 as the prototype belongs to the fifth century B.C. I have been 

 able to find an exact parallel from Orvieto, Umbria, figured by 

 Montelius, La Civilisation Primitive en Italic, part I., plate xi., 

 fig. 146." It is true that this fibula, as here illustrated, is without 

 the small turned-up knob on the end of the foot, which is a dis- 

 tinguishing characteristic of the Etruscan fibulte from the Certosa 

 Station near Bologna, from which the type is named ; but a close 

 examination of the original shows that the extreme end of the flat 

 plate above the catch is, apparently, broken off, so that doubtless 

 it did once possess this knob. 



In any case, both these fibulae, and especially the latter, are 

 important and interesting specimens, and their evidence, such as 

 it is, tends towards proving a connection with the Continent in 

 very early Pre-Eoman days. 



The bulk, however, of the fibulae illustrated here, all of which 

 are reproduced full size, are of the type which is known as " La 

 Tene I." (see Guide to Early Iron Age, pp. 42, 99), of which such 

 a large series is to be seen from the Gaulish cemeteries of the 

 Department of the Marne, associated with knobbed bronze torques, 

 iron spear-heads, and other objects, in the Morel Collection in the 

 British Museum, where also, many examples of varying size, but 

 of the same type, are to be seen from the Ticino Valley and from 

 Bohemia.^ 



This fibula has been chosen as the characteristic mark of the 

 early period of that " La Tene " civilisation which takes its name 

 from the lake dwelling, where it is best represented on the 

 Lake of Neuchatel. In Gaul, this " La Tene," or " Marnian," period 

 as exemplified in the cemeteries of the Marne in which these fibulae 



' For illustrations of these fibulse see Keller's Lake Dwellings, Munro's 

 Lake Dtoellings, and Romilly Allen's Celtic Art, p. 8. 

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