402 Notes on Objects of Late Celtic Character foimid in Wiltshire. 



Middlesex. [I. and II.] In the British Museum. Found in the Elver 

 Thames at Hammersmith, with three bronze pins \vith ring 

 heads and crooked shafts, three pierced bronze discs, and a 

 bucliet band of thin bronze, all of Late Celtic character. One of 

 these specimens, of exactly the same type as the Wiltshire ex- 

 amples, is perfect. The other example has the bow curiously 

 flattened out into a broad vesica shape with a series of lines 

 following the outline. The foot has a flattened duck's head shaped 

 end, the bill touching the bow. A solid bronze axis runs through 

 the coils of the spring. Complete. A very small specimen. 

 Length IJin. Figured in Guide to Early Iron Age, p, 100, Fig. 78. 



Northamptonshire. A fibula from the Late Celtic camp at Hunsbury, now 

 in Northampton Museum, is figured in Associated Architectural 

 Societies' Reports, XVIII. , Pt. I., PI. IV., Fig. 8, and also, very 

 roughly, in Pitt-Rivers' Excavations, Vol. II., p. 117. It appears 

 to have the high arched bow and turned-back foot. It has lost 

 both spring and pin. [Another example, for a sketch of which I 

 am indebted to Mr. T. J. George, Curator, also from Hunsbury, 

 has lost spring and pin. The turned-back foot is a circular end, 

 sunk for enamel (?), touching the bow, which is broad and ap- 

 parently marked with lines. The head, too, is of a cross shape 

 quite distinct from that of the La Tene fibulae here described.] 



Yorkshire. Found in a barrow of Late Celtic age at Cowlam, excavated by 

 Canon Greenwell, near the chin of an aged woman, with a bronze 

 ai'mlet and a necklace of seventy blue glass beads. Figured in 

 Greenwell, British Barrows, p. 209 ; Evans' Bronze Implements, 

 Fig. 498 ; and Guide to the Early Iron Age, p. 110, Fig. 89. 

 See also ArchcBologia, XLIIL, 497. "When found this specimen 

 had a piece of wood inserted in the spiral coil, to which was 

 fastened an iron pin to replace the lost original. This fibula is 

 without ornament. The foot ends in a plain flat circular plate 

 touching the bow. It is the only La Tene fibula as yet found 

 with an interment in Britain, and the interment in this case is 

 fairly certainly of Pre-Koman date. It is preserved in the British 

 Museum. 



To pass on to other forms which seem to have a British rather 

 than a Eoman origin, it is generally admitted now that those bow 

 fibulae, whether of bronze or iron, in which the bow, spring, and 

 pin are formed of one continuous piece of wire, are of Celtic rather 

 than of distinctly Eoman make. 



Of this simple form of fibula, sometimes known as the " Common 

 Peoples' Brooch," Fig. 16, from New Copse, West Lavington, now 

 in the Devizes Museum is probably the earliest, and it is of 

 somewhat unusual form. Mr. Eeginald Smith would date it in the 



