FIBULAE. 



81 



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with enamel. The pin is hinged and is 

 perfect. There seems to be a spring in 

 the shape of a small projection, pressing 

 on the inner surface of the cross bar. 135 

 and 136 are very much damaged. 137 has 

 lost its pin, but is a curious specimen, i|in. 

 long. It has a slightly adorned cross bar. 

 Its main bar is wide and thin, the slightly 

 convex upper surface having y diamond- 

 shaped ornaments in low relief. Further, 

 it has on each side a thin flange minutely 

 serrated. At the small end, this main bar 

 has three slight fillets partly round it, and 

 a semi-circular projecting flange as a 

 termination. 138, another small, imper- 

 fect, but most curious fibula, not easy to 

 understand or describe. The flat, slightly- 

 curved main bar, ijin. long, has at the 

 head a very thin, vertically flat cross bar, 

 each projection only |in. long. At half- 

 an-inch from the head of the main bar, a 

 thin, carefully-shaped, and slightly-orna- 

 mented strip of bronze is fastened to the 

 upper surface by one rivet, on which it now 

 can be turned, and rather looks as if it was 

 always able to do so. This little strip 

 reaches just beyond the head and its small 

 cross bars. It is there bent into a little 

 transverse eye or cylinder. Through this 

 passes a bronze wire, which has each end 

 twisted into a close spiral. The wire seems 

 to have lain against the little cross bars, to 

 which it possibly was fastened by delicate 



