A full account of the find is given in E. Hawkins’ “Notice of a remarkable collection of ornaments of the Roman period, connected with the worship of the Deæ Matres, and recently purchased for the British Museum” in the _Archæological Journal_ (vol. viii., p. 35). [Illustration: One of a pair of silver-gilt Fibulæ found in Northumberland, with Denarius of Antoninus Pius (A.D. 139) Drawn by C. Praetorius] We may here call attention to the intensely Celtic character of the fibulæ just described. The wearing of brooches in pairs with a chain attachment was a Celtic and not a Roman custom, as has already been pointed out in a previous volume of _The Reliquary_ (for 1895, p. 157). A pair of bronze fibulæ, of the same kind as the one from the Warren, Folkestone, fastened together by a double chain, was found in one of the Gaulish cemeteries in the Department of Marne[204] in France, and is now to be seen in the museum of St. Germain, near Paris. It may, therefore, be fairly assumed that all the fibulæ found in this country with chains attached to them or with loops for a chain at the top are more Celtic than Roman. [204] Engraved in the _Dictionnaire Archéologique de la Gaule_. Other examples from the cemeteries of Somme-Bionne, Courtois, Bussy-le-Château, and Sommesous in the Department of the Marne, are given in the _Album_ accompanying L. Morel’s _La Champagne souterraine_ (pls. 13, 29, 34, and 40). Amongst the Late-Celtic antiquities in the British Museum are three specimens which illustrate the evolution of the harp-shaped fibula very well. One ornamented with a coral boss and gold stud, probably from the Marne district, was presented by the late Sir A. W. Franks; another came from a chalk pit near Walmer, Kent; and the third was found at Clogher, Co. Tyrone. Broadly speaking, it may be said that the safety-pin type of fibula made in one piece is earlier in date than the Roman occupation of Britain, and the specimens found in this country are obviously either imported from abroad or copied from foreign originals, such as those found at La Tène, in Switzerland, and in the Champagne district of France. The fibula in use in Britain, after it became a province of the Roman Empire, has a massive harp or bow-shaped back made in a separate piece from the pin and spring. In the earlier, or La Tène type of the fibula, the catch for the end of the pin forms one side of a triangular opening, which, as we have already mentioned, is filled in with a thin plate in the later or Roman Provincial fibula. There is also a sort of transitional kind, with ornamental piercings in the plate. There was yet another description of fibula belonging to the Romano-British period, having a flat plate for the body in the shape of a circular disc, or sometimes in the shape of a fish or animal. The different classes of Late-Celtic fibulæ are given in the following lists.