CHAP. XII.] 



THE ART. 



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form of the "trumpet pattern/' or flamboyant, it is 

 seen in various ornaments of the type of Fig. 158. In 



161 



163 



162 



FIG. 161. Late Celtic Pattern, Dagger Sheath, Witham. 

 FIG. 162. Z and Double Mirror, Dimnichen Stone. 

 FIG. 163. Strange Animal form, Dunnichen Stone. 

 FIG. 164. Design on Bronze Sheath, Marin. 



this shape it is frequently associated in Ireland and in 

 Scotland with the Germanic knotted-cord pattern (Fig. 

 167). Its distinctness, however, from this is proved by 

 its wide distribution over France and Switzerland long 

 before the Germanic invasion of those countries. In 

 the lake-dwelling of Marin, 1 for example (Fig. 164), 

 it occurs on many of the scabbards and ornaments 

 belonging to the ancient Helvetians of that district ; 

 and in Scandinavia it is to be seen on one of the 

 sculptured slabs in the famous tomb of Kivik, belonging 

 to the Bronze age. 



The art of enamelling the surface of metal appears for 

 the first time in north-western Europe in the Prehistoric 

 Iron age, and its chief centre seems to have been the 

 British Isles and the adjacent parts of Gaul. 2 



1 Keller, Lake-Dwellings, transl. by J. E. Lee, 2d. edit. 



2 Eemble and Franks, Horn Ferales, p. 64. Dawldns, Cave-hunting, 

 p. 99. 



