Culbin Sands, Nairnshire. Bunrannoch, Perthshire.
Auchenbadie, Banffshire. Seafield Tower, Fifeshire.
Castle Newe, Aberdeenshire. Stanhope, Peeblesshire.
Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire. Plunton Castle, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Aboyne, Aberdeenshire.
Pitalpin, Forfarshire. Locality unknown.
Grange of Conan, Forfarshire. Newry, Co. Down.
Pitkelloney, Perthshire.
The armlet from Stanhope, Peeblesshire, was associated with a
Romano-British saucepan, which suggests that this type belongs to the
later part of the Celtic Pagan Iron Age.
Bronze armlets of La Tène, or continental type, have been derived from
the burial mounds at Cowlam and Arras, Yorkshire. The bronze armlet
from the Stamford Hill Cemetery, near Plymouth, is jointed like the
collars, and decorated with flamboyant work.
A pair of penannular ring armlets of silver terminating in serpents’
heads, which may possibly be Late-Celtic, was disposed of at the sale
of the Bateman Collection from Lomberdale House, Derbyshire. They were
found at Castlethorpe,[223] Buckinghamshire, in 1827, in a small urn
containing Roman silver and brass coins, none later than the reign of
Verus (A.D. 161-169), and a massive silver ring set with a carnelian
engraved with a figure of Bonus Eventus. A similar pair of base silver
armlets were found near the Carlswark Cavern,[224] in Middleton Dale,
Derbyshire.
Three very elegant armlets of twisted and looped bronze wire were
associated with a Late-Celtic burial outside Thirst House Cave,[225]
Deepdale, Derbyshire. Armlets of the same make are illustrated in
Lidenschmit’s _Alterthümer_, (vol. ii., pt. 5, pl. 3).
[223] _The Reliquary_, vol. xiii., pl. 18; and _Jour._; and _Brit.
Archæol. Assoc._, vol. ii., p. 353.
[224] _The Reliquary_, vol. 1867, p. 113.
[225] _Ibid._, 1897, p. 101.
The Late-Celtic toilet accessories are of three kinds, namely,
hand-mirrors, hair-combs, and châtelaines. The mirrors are of bronze
and circular in shape, with an ornamental handle. The back, or
unpolished face of the mirror, is in nearly all cases decorated with
incised circles of different sizes, combined with curved lines and a
peculiar sort of background filled in with cross-hatching. A list of
mirrors such as those described is given below.
[Illustration: LATE-CELTIC BRONZE MIRROR, IN THE MAYER MUSEUM,
LIVERPOOL; LOCALITY UNKNOWN]
_List of Localities where Late-Celtic Mirrors have been found._
Warden (Bedford Mus.) Bedfordshire.
Stamford Hill, near Plymouth (Plymouth Mus.) Devonshire.
Birdlip (Gloucester Mus.) Gloucestershire.
Trelan Bahow (British Mus.) Cornwall.
Balmaclellan (Edinburgh Mus.) Kirkcudbrightshire.
Locality unknown (Liverpool Mus.)
Unornamented mirrors have been found with burials at Arras,[226]
Yorkshire, and Gilton,[227] Kent.