396 Notes on Objects of Late Celtic Character fmi,nd in Wiltshire. 



are found, dates probably from 350 to 200 B.C., and Dr. Arthur 

 Evans and Mr. Eeginald Smith would regard fibulte of this type 

 found in Britain as possibly of as early a date as 200 B.C. them- 

 selves. 



They are made of one continuous piece of bronze, which, after 

 forming two coils of a spiral spring on eacli side of the head, is 

 thickened into a fairly solid bow of semi-circular section forming 

 a high and somewhat square arch, and after being flattened for 

 the catch, the foot or tail is turned back until it almost — or quite — 

 touches the front of the bow, to which, however, it is not fastened. 

 The foot ends in a knob, most often shaped more or less like a 

 duck's head, sometimes round and flat, and sunk for enamel or to 

 contain amber or other ornament. The bow has most commonly, 

 a row of engraved dots with a couple of lines along the back 

 without other ornamentation. 



In his Celtic Art, 1904, p. 106, Mr. Eomilly Allen gives a "List 

 of Localities in England where Late Celtic fibulae have been found," 

 and mentions only five examples of this type, all in the British 

 Museum, of which one — from Clogher, Co. Tyrone — is really of a 

 somewhat different type. There are, ho\yever, in the museum of 

 the Wiltshire Archaeological Society, at Devizes, no less than six 

 examples of this fibula, of which illustrations are for the first time 

 now given. Altogether, after some considerable enquiry, I have 

 been able to trace some twenty-six examples, found in England : 

 of these the British Museum has five, Heading and Farnham three 

 each, Mr. Brooke's Museum at Marlborough two, the Ashmolean, 

 Salisbury, Chedworth, Northampton, and Taixnton Museums one 

 each, and one is in the possession of Mr. G. N. Temple, of Boreham, 

 near Warminster. Of these Wiltshire claims thirteen, and counties 

 bordering on Wiltshire seven ; only one (the Cowlam, Yorks., 

 example) comes from the northern counties, and one from North- 

 ampton. Seven are from known Eomano-British sites ; Eoman 

 coins were found close to two; four were associated with well- 

 marked Late Celtic remains; whilst of the finding of the remainder 

 no details seem to be known. The only example known to have 

 been found with an interment is that from Cowlam, described and 



