CHAP, xii.] SURVIVAL OF THE LATE CELTIC ART. 443 



Survival of the Late Celtic Art into the Historic 

 Period in Britain. 



The designs introduced into Britain in the Prehistoric 

 Iron age still survive. The volutes and flamboyants on 

 the metal-work of the Prehistoric 

 inhabitants of Britain and Ire- 

 land are found on ornaments 

 proved by the associated coins 

 to belong to the fifth or sixth 

 centuries after Christ. The ex- 

 ample here figured (Fig. 166) 

 is that of a bronze brooch, orna- 

 mented in repousse, found in the FlG - 166 -~ Bronze Brooch 



. ^ Victoria Cave, Yorkshire, f 



Victoria Cave. Ihe same de- 

 signs are conspicuous in the illuminated Irish manu- 

 scripts, 2 such as the Gospel of St. Patrick, the book of 

 Kells, and others, on early Irish Christian chalices, 3 and 

 on caskets discovered in France and Scandinavia. They 

 also occur in the ornamentation of many engraved stones 

 and crosses found 4 in Scotland, and ranging at least as 

 late as, and probably later than, the twelfth century. 



The silver ornaments discovered in the Worries Law 5 

 tumulus, in Largo Bay on the Firth of Forth, are also to 

 be classified with the late Celtic art, which survived into 

 the Historic period. The flamboyant design of Fig. 166 

 is to be seen in a silver plate in combination with the 



1 The relation of these designs to Irish art is treated in my work on 

 Cave-hunting, p. 94 et seq. 2 Westwood,-Palceographia. 



3 Dunraven, The Earl of, Ancient Chalice and Brooches lately found at 

 Ardagh, Limerick, Trans. R. I. Acad. xxiv. Antiquities. 



4 Stuart, Sculptured Stones of Scotland, Spalding Club, 2 vols. 4to. 



5 Wilson, Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, ii. pp. 220, 250, Figs. 144, 

 153. 



