Colonel Tod's Observations on a Gold Ring found at Montrose. 57 1 



Whether the Celtic adorers of Belenus and Isis had attained such know- 

 ledge of the arts from their Phoenician instructors in metallurgy, or that the 

 Getic Saxon votaries of Hertha were possessed of such ornaments, I leave 

 as matter of speculation to others ; of one point we are certain, that this 

 symbolic worship was alike common to the Celtic and the Gothic races, and 

 carried by successive migrations at times of which history leaves no defi- 

 nite trace, from a seat which I venture to say was far east of the Cas- 

 pian. To conclude — whatever the history of the Ring, it is a relic of sin- 

 gular curiosity, even had it originated in the plains of the Ganges, which 

 indeed there seems little reason to doubt. 



