DORSET-FOUND CELTIC AND ROMAN BRONZE OBJECTS. 



No. of 

 Case. 



No. of 

 Object. 



xii. 



Br. 139 

 to 145. 



Locality, &c. 



binding wire. Where the wire clears the 

 cross bars the spirals come, and are turned 

 so as to point towards the catch at the other 

 end of the fibula. Possibly the wire below 

 the spirals was straightened out and the two 

 lengths united somehow so as to form a pin. 

 But the whole make of this fibula is puzzling. 



Jordan Hill, Wey mouth. 



Five backs and two pins of fibulae. 

 Only Br. 142 calls for remark. This is the 

 back bar of a fibula of very light and 

 graceful make. The bar is of round 

 section, at the thinnest part hardly, if at 

 all, more than i-i6th inch thick. At the 

 hinge end it seems to have been worked 

 into two side arms as usual, but these are 

 broken off. Further, welded on to the bar, 

 between the arms, or possibly forged as part 

 and parcel of the bar, is the spiral spring of 

 the pin. At the most projecting part of the 

 curve of the harp-shaped bar is an ornament 

 consisting of a fillet moulding surrounding 

 the bar and a little projection from the 

 outer side on each side of the moulding. 

 These projections look as if they had 

 been joined so as to form a ring or arch. 

 The catch is curious. The ordinary little 

 plate joined to the lower end of the bar, 

 and at its outer edge curled up to secure 

 the pin point, is of unusual make. It is 

 not perfect. But it seems to have had four 

 openings pierced in it. These reduced 

 the plate to two slips each in. wide, and 



How procured. 



With the 



Warne 



Collection. 



