Ill] 



AND HISTORIC TIMES 



395 



and fastened their cloaks with a peculiar form of brooch (Fig. 

 114). Now relics of this La Tene culture are not wanting in 



FIG. 114. Bronze Fibula ; Marne 1 . 



FIG. 115. Aider-wood Shield; Ireland 2 . 



Ireland, for there is a shield of the Gallic type in the Museum 

 of the Royal Irish Academy (Fig. 115) differing completely from 



1 Ridgeway, op. cit. Vol. i. p. 456. 



2 Id., Vol. i. p. 580. 



