VOL. XX. (i) 
LATE CELTIC FINDS OF 1879 
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THE CRICKLEY HILL (BIRDLIP) LATE CELTIC 
FINDS OF 1879 . 
BY 
ST. CLAIR BADDELEY, President. 
(Read November 19th, 1918.) 
“ Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, 
Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : 
Yes, this was once Ambition’s airy hall. 
The Dome of Thought, the Palace of the Sold : 
Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, 
The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit 
And Passion s host, that never brooked control : 
Can all Saint, Sage, or Sophist ever writ. 
People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? ” 
Byron. 
Partly owing to the great advance made in our information 
as to early races in Britain and their burial customs, and partly 
to the fact that imperfect, as well as too-long-delayed, reporting, 
at the time, has somewhat obscured the subject of this par- 
ticularly valuable find, and lastly to the deplorable separation 
of the human remains found from the furniture of the interment 
(the former remaining in Cheltenham and the latter ultimately 
despatched to Gloucester) — the need for re-writing funda- 
mentally the subject-matter has long pressed itself upon me. 
Even so recent an authority on Romano-British and other 
ancient remains as Mr. Rice Holmes, 1 has had to complain of 
the dearth of detailed information about this Gloucestershire 
find of bronze ornaments. 
My attention at last became pointed to the fact that the 
uncommonly beautiful skull (PI. I.) of the lady found, together 
with her ornaments, at Birdlip, has, at last, reappeared in the 
Cheltenham Museum, at first somewhat misdescribed on the 
1 Ancient Britain, 1907, p. 435, a.i. 
