Celtic art in Pagan and Christian timesAllen, J. Romilly (John Romilly)
Philosophy
Celtic art in Pagan and Christian times
Allen, J. Romilly (John Romilly)
Art, Celtic
The forms of the fibulæ associated with Late-Celtic finds afford
specially valuable evidence as to date. The pre-Roman, or La Tène, type
of fibula was made in one piece on the same principle as the modern
safety-pin, and therefore differed from the Roman Provincial harp, or
bow-shaped fibula, in which the pin was separate from the back and
worked on a hinge. Fibulæ of the earlier kind have been found with
Late-Celtic burials at Cowlam, Yorkshire; Aylesford, Kent; and Birdlip,
Gloucestershire; and on inhabited and fortified sites at Hod Hill, and
Rotherley, Dorset. The fibulæ from the Stamford Hill Cemetery, near
Plymouth, and the Polden Hill hoard of horse-trappings belong to the
later class. As the forms of the different fibulæ will be discussed
subsequently, no more need be said on the subject here.
Ancient British coins have been found near the Late-Celtic cemeteries
at Aylesford,[181] Kent, and Stamford Hill,[182] near Plymouth;
also within the fortifications of the Late-Celtic _oppida_ at Mount
Caburn,[183] near Lewes, Sussex, and Hod Hill,[184] near Blandford,
Dorset. General Pitt-Rivers came across ancient British coins
during his excavations on the site of the Romano-British village at
Rotherley[185] in Cranbourne Chase, Dorset, and numerous specimens
(especially of the coins of Verica, one of the three sons of Commios)
have turned up from time to time at Farley Heath,[186] near Guildford,
Surrey.
[181] _Archæologia_, vol. lii., p. 315.
[182] _Ibid._, vol. xl., p. 500.
[183] _Ibid._, vol. xlvi., p. 423.
[184] _Archæol. Jour._, vol. lvii., p. 52.
[185] _Excavations in Cranbourne Chase_, vol. ii., p. 188.
[186] F. Martin Tupper’s _Farley Heath_, p. 10.
The Romano-British inhabited or fortified sites from which objects of
Late-Celtic character have been derived, have already been specified.
The following lists show the instances where Late-Celtic finds have
been associated with Roman coins or with objects of Roman manufacture:—
_Late-Celtic Finds associated with Roman Coins._
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