An Ogam-inscribed stone at Killeen Cormac,[354] Co. Kildare, lying prostrate near the entrance gate, with a bust of Christ carrying the cross over the right shoulder. St. Gobnet’s Stone at Ballyvourney,[355] Co. Cork, with a cross enclosed in a circle, surmounted by the figure of a bishop holding his crozier. A stone, with a minuscule inscription, at Reask,[356] Co. Kerry, having on the same face a cross in a circle, with incised spiral ornament at each side of the shaft. [352] _Archæologia Cambrensis_, ser. 6, vol. i., p. 240. [353] _Trans. Royal Irish Academy_, vol. xxxi., p. 318. [354] _Journ. R. Hist. and A. A. of Ireland_, ser. 4, vol. ii., p. 546. [355] _Archæol. Jour._, vol. xii., p. 86. [356] _Archæologia Cambrensis_, ser. 5, vol. ix., p. 147. The stones, with incised symbols of unknown meaning, which are so common in the north-east of Scotland, possibly belong to the same early period. The ornament on some of them has a very marked Late-Celtic character. [Illustration: Enamelled Handles of Bronze Bowl found at Barlaston, Staffordshire Now in the possession of Miss Amy Wedgwood. Scale 1/1 linear] [Illustration: Enamelled Handle of Bronze Bowl from Chesterton-on-Fossway, Warwickshire Now in the Warwick Museum. Scale 1/1 linear] There are no Celtic MSS. with illuminations or ornament of any kind to which a date earlier than A.D. 650 can be assigned, but there are a certain number of metal objects which illustrate the overlap of the Pagan and Christian styles of Celtic art. Amongst the most important of these are the bronze bowls with enamelled mountings and zoömorphic handles which have been described at some length by the author in the _Archæologia_ (vol. lvi., p. 43). The chief peculiarities of the bowls is the hollow moulding just below the rim and the three or four handles with rings for suspension. The upper part of each handle is like a hook, terminating in a beast’s head, which rests on the rim of the bowl and projects inwards over it. The lower part of each handle is circular, or in the shape of the body of a bird, and is fixed to the convex sides of the bowl. The circular form is most common in the examples found in England, and the disc is either ornamented with _champlevé_ enamel[357] or with piercings, giving a cruciform appearance.[358] [357] As in the specimens from Barlaston, Staffordshire; Chesterton-on-the-Fossway, Warwickshire; Barrington, Cambridgeshire; Crosthwaite, Cumberland; Middleton Moor, Derbyshire; Oxford; and Greenwich. [358] As in the specimens from Wilton, Wilts; and Faversham, Kent. [Illustration: Enamelled Handle of Bronze Bowl from Chesterton-on-Fossway, Warwickshire Now in the Warwick Museum. Scale 1/1 linear]