thickens towards the lower margin to trumpet-shaped endings on either side of the handle, which takes the form of a double-loop, drawn out from the marginal bead, and terminating in a ring partly filled by an ornamented disc. ----- Footnote 64: _Proceedings of the Bristol and Gloucester Archæological Society_, vol. v. p. 137, and Plate XIV., from which the figure here given is copied by permission. ----- These mirrors all differ in their form and in the composition of the metal from Roman mirrors, and they differ in certain characteristics of their ornament still more widely from the Roman style. But the peculiar characteristics which form the special features of their decoration are identical with those of a large class of objects which we have now learned to recognise by the character of their art as distinctively Celtic. [Illustration: Fig. 109.—Bronze Spoon-like object (one of a pair) found at Weston, near Bath (actual size).] The same character is exhibited by the ornamentation of a series of spoon-like objects[65] found in England and Ireland, of which Fig. 109 is a characteristic example. Four of these are in the National Museum, and though no specimens have yet been met with in Scotland, I notice them here, because their decoration is so nearly related to that of the Scottish school. In the case of the pair of these peculiar objects found in excavating for a quarry at Weston, near Bath, the backs of the circular projections or handles (Fig. 110) are ornamented with patterns of this character in relief. The front of the disc is ornamented with a series of circular concentric mouldings, and the bowl of the spoon is quartered by incised lines. It is a peculiarity of these objects, that though found in pairs, the two members of the pair, though similar, are not identical. In some cases it is apparent that they have even been cast in different moulds. Usually one of the pair has its bowl quartered by incised lines, while the other has a small hole pierced near the edge of the bowl. Another pair, also in the Museum, were found in 1861 in a railway cutting in Llanfair parish, Denbighshire. They are slightly smaller in size, and differ in the ornamentation of the front of their discs. One of them (Fig. 111, No. 2) is here shown along with the second of the Weston specimens. ----- Footnote 65: These have been conjectured to be of Christian time, and to have been used in connection with the celebration of the Eucharist, but the evidence is insufficient to carry this conclusion. See the papers by Albert Way in _Archæological Journal_, vol. xxvi. p. 52; and by Rev. E. L. Barnwell in _Archæologia Cambrensis_, vol. viii. (Third Series) p. 208, and vol. x. p. 57. ----- [Illustration: Fig. 110.—Backs of the Handles of the pair of Spoon-like objects found at Weston, near Bath (actual size).]