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pronounce these also to be late Celtic, and they closely resemble 
examples found likewise in the Aisne and Marne collections. 
Hence (and having good reason to suspect that these probably 
belonged to the same find at Birdlip) , I have the great pleasure 
of handing them over now to the case in Gloucester Museum. 
They have evidently formed part of another and smaller necklet 
of Celtic Beads, and again they illustrate the close intercourse 
maintained during the first century with the Continent. 
We now' come to the Capolavoro of the find, namely the 
Bronze Mirror belonging to the Lady ; weighing 38J oz. and 
having a circular (oval) disc. This is engraved upon its reverse 
with typical divergent floral scroll-work, having a basket- 
pattern filling, or ground-work, heightened by dark-red enamel 
spots distributed in symmetrical couples. It measures 273 
by 250 mm., and is bound in by a hollow or tubular rounded 
rim (10 mm.) gradually swelling from the outward circumference 
to the handle. Ring-and-dot punching occurs freely. 
Basketry was a speciality of the British. The length of the 
twisted solid bronze handle measures 190 mm. It consists of 
three sections, and it is riveted to the disc very neatly, finishing 
there in trumpet-formed twin terminals. Above these, and 
forming a section of ornament (to set off the proportion of the 
ring to the handle), occur tw r o small inverted trumpet-designs, 
with interspaces decorated with three couples of enamelled 
circles. The entire rim is not here, one section having been 
lost ; but our mirror still remains the finest of the four examples 
of its Period known to us. The fourth of these came to light 
in 1908 in the ironstone quarry at Desborough (Northampton- 
shire) ; the other tw r o having occurred in Lancashire and at 
St. Keverne, Cornwall. The Birdlip Mirror, if not quite so 
complete, is slightly more elaborate and interesting than the 
Desborough example. 1 
This Period of late Celtic Art has been identified pretty 
securely as coinciding with the early and middle years of the 
first century ; it belongs to the last' period of La Tene Art. 
We may therefore conclude that this Lady with the beautiful 
skull and teeth, and the remains of those found belonging to, 
Compare illustrations in Archcsologia, lxi, pp. 330, 338. 
