Metal pins do not seem to have been much used as dress-fasteners during the Late-Celtic period, judging from the number to be seen in our public museums. One of the most beautiful pins of this period now in existence is the one found with the burial previously mentioned at Danes’ Graves,[205] near Driffield, Yorkshire, and now in the York Museum. The pin is of bronze, with a peculiar crook near the top and a circular head (resembling a chariot-wheel with four spokes) inlaid with shell, or, according to another account, enamelled. Two bronze pins, with plain turned heads, were amongst the objects derived from the Thirst House Cave,[206] Deepdale, Derbyshire. [205] _Proc. Soc. Ant. Lond._ ser. 2, vol. xvii., p. 120. [206] _The Reliquary_ for 1897, p. 96. Several pins of the class known as “hammer-headed” have been discovered from time to time, chiefly in Ireland and Scotland. These pins are of considerable size, some being ten inches long, and have semicircular heads with the convex side facing downwards. The top of the pin is bent at right angles, and the head fixed on in front of it. At the top of the head are usually from three to five projecting studs, and the face of the head is enamelled with Late-Celtic designs. From the associations in which such pins have been found and the style of their decoration, they would seem to belong to the transition period between Paganism and Christianity. There is one in the British Museum from Moresby, Cumberland, which was associated with a small bronze ornament of Late-Celtic character; another in the same collection from Craigywarren,[207] Co. Antrim, has spiral patterns upon it; whilst a third in the Edinburgh Museum, from Norrie’s Law,[208] Forfarshire, was associated with coins of the seventh century, and silver leaf-shape pendants engraved with the same mysterious symbols which occur so frequently on the early Christian sculptured stones of Scotland. A hammer-headed pin of silver from Gaulcross,[209] Banffshire, has spiral designs upon the head, but of a kind more nearly resembling that found on the Christian crosses of about the ninth century in Argyllshire than the Late-Celtic flamboyant designs of Pagan times. Other examples of pins of this kind have been found at Lagore,[210] Co. Meath, Urquhart,[211] Elginshire, on the Culbin Sands, Nairnshire, and in the island of Pabbay, Hebrides. [207] Wood Martin’s _Lake-Dwellings of Ireland_, p. 110. [208] Dr. J. Anderson’s _Scotland in Early Christian Times_, 2nd ser., p. 36. [209] Dr. J. Stuart’s _Sculptured Stones of Scotland_, vol. ii., pl. 9. [210] Wood Martin’s _Lake-Dwellings of Ireland_. [211] _Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot._, vol. xxxv., p. 279. [Illustration: BRONZE HOOK-AND-DISK ORNAMENT FROM IRELAND; NOW IN THE DUBLIN MUSEUM] [Illustration: BRONZE PIN, ENAMELLED, FROM DANES GRAVES, NEAR DRIFFIELD, YORKSHIRE; NOW IN THE YORK MUSEUM] [Illustration: BRONZE DISC FIBULA WITH LATE-CELTIC ORNAMENT, FROM SILCHESTER; NOW AT STRATHFIELDSAYE HOUSE