By the Rev. E. H. Gocldard. 405 



Fig. 24, from Wylye Camp, now in the Blackmore Museum, at 

 Salisbury, is another remarkable fibula of somewhat the same ap- 

 pearance, though from the shape of its spring case and the loop at 

 the head, Mr. Reginald Smith would place it as probably early in 

 the third century A.D. The spring, now missing, was contained 

 in a semi-cylindrical case with ends, in which are holes to receive 

 the axis of the spring. The brooch is flat, with a circular disc- 

 shaped centre with two concentric channelled circles, which have 

 held enamel. In one of these traces of blue enamel are still visible. 

 The foot is a flat plate, widening after the fashion of the QEsica 

 fibulae, the surface of which has also been enamelled, showing 

 traces of blue and green (?) still. There are upon this plate 

 remains of a scroll pattern of distinctly " Late Celtic " type. The 

 bronze surface, where it was not covered by enamel, shows traces 

 of having been tinned. Length 2 |in. ; width of foot jgin. 



Accompanying this fibula is a large bow fibula of Eoman type 

 with flat square head and a broken loop, and also the bow of the 

 "La Tene" fibula illustrated as Fig. 11. There seems to be no 

 record of the finding of these objects, probably they were the 

 produce of flint diggings. 



The loop at the head of this specimen is a characteristic feature 

 of a considerable number of fibulse found in Wiltshire and the 

 adjoining counties, of various types, many of which, however, 

 have the graceful curved and spreading head of " trumpet " shape 

 covering the spiral spring. These looped fibulae were. Dr. Evans 

 tells us, intended to be worn in pairs by the women,^ with a chain 

 hanging between them ; this seems to have been a specially British 

 fashion, quite opposed to the ordinary Roman usage. " The true 

 British tradition continued to assert itself in the north and west 

 throughout the Roman dominion." 



The total number of bow fibulae of all kinds figured in the four 

 volumes of Gen. Pitt-Rivers' Excavations in Cranborne Chase, &c., 



'A pair still retaining their chain were found at Chorley, Lanes., with 

 coins of Galba and Hadrian. In some cases the smaller " La Tene " fibulae 

 of the Gaulish interments in the Marne were found united in this way in 

 pairs by chains. 



