_Hoards of Late-Celtic Objects purposely concealed._—The horse-trappings found in an excavation at the bottom of one of several oblong pits, 7 feet long by 3 feet wide by 4 feet deep, at Hagbourne Hill[150] in Berkshire, two miles south of Didcot, seem to have been purposely hidden; as also the horse-trappings which were discovered in the chink of the rock by quarrymen at Hamdon Hill[151] in Somersetshire, five miles west of Yeovil. Another instance of intentional concealment is afforded by the beautiful bronze mirror that was found, with other ornamental pieces of bronze, wrapped in a cloth, and covered by the upper stone of a quern, at Balmaclellan,[152] two miles north-east of New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire. [142] Three miles south of Cartmel, on the shore of Morecambe Bay (_Cave-Hunting_, p. 125). [143] A mile and a half north-east of Settle (_Cave-Hunting_, p. 81; and H. Eckroyd Smith in _Trans. of Hist. Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire_, vol. for 1866, p. 199; and Roach Smith’s _Collectanea Antiqua_, vol. i., p. 67). [144] Overlooking Giggleswick, one mile north-west of Settle. [145] Between Kilnsey and Arncliffe, ten miles north-east of Settle (_Proc. Geol. and Polytech. Soc. of W. Riding of Yorksh._ for 1859, p. 45). [146] A mile south-west of Buxton (_Cave-Hunting_, p. 126). [147] Three miles south-east of Buxton (_Derbyshire Archæol. Soc. Trans._, vol. xiii., p. 196). [148] Near Grindon, eight miles north-west of Ashbourne (_Reliquary_, vol. vi., p. 201, and _Trans. Midland Sci. Assoc._, 1864-5, p. 1). [149] One mile north-west of Torquay. There is a fragment of pottery, with Late-Celtic ornament upon it, from Kent’s Cavern, in the British Museum. [150] _Archæologia_, vol. xvi., p. 348. [151] _Ibid._, vol. xxi., p. 39. [152] Dr. J. Anderson’s _Scotland in Pagan Times: Iron Age_, p. 126. _Late-Celtic Objects accidentally lost._—Besides the Late-Celtic objects which have been dropped by their original owners on dry land, and got covered with the soil and thus been preserved, it is remarkable in how many cases they have been lost whilst crossing or navigating rivers, especially the Thames,[153] Witham,[154] Tyne,[155] and Tweed.[156] [153] Shield (_Archæologia_, vol. xxiii., p. 96); helmet (in the British Museum); fibula (_Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot._, 2nd ser., vol. xv., p. 191). [154] Shield (_Archæologia_, vol. xxiii., p. 96); sword-sheath (J. C. Bruce’s _Catal. of Alnwick Mus._); daggers (Kemble’s _Horæ Ferales_, pl. 17). [155] Fibulæ (_Illustrated Archæologist_, vol. ii., p. 157). [156] Sword-sheath (_Archæologia_, vol. xlv., p. 45). FINDS OF CELTIC COINS IN BRITAIN