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figured by Canon Greenwell in his British Barrows, and in the 

 British Museum Guide to the Early Iron Age, -p. 1\^. None of 

 them occur in the great Eoman collections of the Guildhall, the 

 Silchester collection at Eeading, or at Cirencester, Colchester, 

 York, Norwich, or Cambridge; none have, I believe, been dis- 

 covered in the Glastonbury lake village. 



Of the non-Wiltshire examples not here illustrated, one comes 

 from the Chedworth Villa, Gloucestershire; one from Melbury, 

 Somersetshire ; one from Woodcuts Eomano-British village ; and 

 another from Bryanstone, near Blandford, Dorset. Berkshire 

 claims three, one dredged from the Ken net at Beading, and two 

 others, very similar to many of the Marne examples, found at 

 Wallingford. Oxfordshire has two — one from Wood Eaton in the 

 Ashmolean, the other from Water Eaton in the British Museum ; 

 two in the British Museum come from the Thames near London. 

 The example from the Late Celtic camp at Hunsbury is now in 

 Northampton Museum ; that from Cowlam, in the East Biding, is 

 in the British Museum. 



Is it fanciful to suggest the possibility that the prevalence 

 of these fibulae, many of which are precisely like those found so 

 abundantly in the cemeteries of the Marne, in Wiltshire and the 

 neighbouring district, whilst they are very rare or entirely absent 

 in the northern counties, and are not found on any of the great- 

 Eoman sites, may point to some special connection of this part of 

 Britain with Gaul in the days before the Eoman invasion ? 



One other point as to these fibulte is worth noticing. Of the 

 seven Wiltshire examples which retain their pins and springs, four 

 have a bronze axis or rivet run through the coils of the spring. In 

 three of these one of the coils of the spring is broken, and the pin 

 simply works on the axis ; as is also the case, apparently in the 

 fourth example, where the axis is in the shape of a small cylinder of 

 bronze instead of a solid rivet as in the others.^ 



In the Cowlam example Canon Greenwell specially notes that, 



' There is a similar axis in one of the examples from the Thames in the 

 British Museum, but whether in this case the coil has been broken I cannot say. 



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