270 ROMANO-BRITISH REMAINS AT TRELAN. 
might have been punched by the same tool. The Plymouth louped 
handle is four inches long; another handle was also found of a 
more finished character, being ornamentally turned, as the Gilton 
Specimen is; but differently terminating in a strong oval ring. 
5. The only remaining specimen to be noticed is that which 
is preserved in the Museum of Scottish Antiquities. It was dis- 
covered with other bronze relics in a moss in the parish of Bal- 
maclellan, Kirkeudbrightshire, and is figured by Dr. Wilson in his 
Prehistoric Annals, (vol. ii, Edit. 1863, p. 228), and is thus de- 
scribed by Mr. Franks, in his note on Mr. Spence Bate’s paper 
already cited :— 
“A mirror of slightly elliptical form (greatest width 84 inches) 
“with plain back, a marginal rim, and a broad handle. The por- 
“tion of this handle “aEnne the mirror is ornamented with. 
“scrolls in relief ; the lower end is decorated with pierced work. 
“ Proceedings of the Soc: Ant: Scotland, vol. iv, p. 294; and Sculptured 
“‘ Stones of Scotland, vol. ii, p. 10.” Mr. Franks adds :—‘“TI should 
“be therefore disposed to attribute the mirrors from Plymouth, 
“and the others which I have described, to a late Celtic origin. 
“The only other mirrors with ornamented backs are Etruscan ; in 
“their elliptical form the specimens under consideration are not 
“ altogether unlike Egyptian mirrors.” 
With respect to the probable date of this and similar relics, 
Mr. Albert Way agrees with Mr. Franks in the belief expressed 
by “the latter in his Hore Ferales, that they are probably not 
“more ancient than the introduction of coinage into Britain, from 
«©9200 to 100 B.c. and not much later than the close of the first 
“century after Christ, when the Roman dominion in this country 
“was firmly established. This date would account for the occa- 
“sional discovery of such remains with or in close proximity to 
“Roman antiquities, and also for that influence that their designs 
“seem to have exercised over certain phases of Roman colonial 
“art, in which, however, their wild and studied irregularity of 
“design are brought into subjection, though at the same time the 
“patterns lose much of their charm and originality.” 
A few words will suffice to mention the only other relics found 
with the Trelan Mirror. 
1. Glass Beads.—Two only of these remain. Each about 
seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, the perforation three-eighths of 
