[234] J. Anderson’s _Scotland in Pagan Times: Iron Age_, p. 242. [235] _Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot._, vol. vii., p. 7. [236] _The Reliquary_ for 1897, p. 35. [237] Sir R. Colt Hoare’s _Ancient Wilts._ [238] D. Wilson’s _Prehistoric Annals of Scotland_, vol. i., p. 465, pl. 9. [239] _Trans. of Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæol. Soc._, vol. v., p. 137. [240] _Proc. of Somersetshire Archæol. Soc._, vol. xl., p. 149. [241] _Reliquary_ for 1900, p. 247. Most of the saucepans in use during the Late-Celtic period were either imported from Italy and Gaul or were so nearly copied by local metalworkers as to be indistinguishable from the originals. None of these saucepans, as far as I am aware, have Celtic decoration upon them, although several are inscribed with Celtic names, and others are highly enamelled. Two specimens in the British Museum are of exceptional interest, one of bronze enamelled and inscribed with the name “BODVOGENVS,” from Prickwillow,[242] near Ely, Cambridgeshire, and the other of silver, with a highly ornamented inscribed handle, which was found at Backworth,[243] Northumberland, with the pair of Kelto-Roman fibulæ previously mentioned. The more elaborate saucepans were probably used in connection with religious ceremonies and not for cooking, as is borne out by the dedicatory inscriptions upon the handles and the circumstances under which many of them have been found. A list has already been given of the saucepans associated with finds of Late-Celtic objects. [242] _Archæologia_, vol. xxviii., p. 436. [243] _Archæol. Jour._, vol. viii., p. 39. The metalworkers of the Late-Celtic period were not only capable of executing some of the finest pieces of repoussé bronze that the world has ever seen, but they also excelled in producing works of art in wrought-iron of great merit. As an example of their skill in this direction we have the remarkable pair of fire-dogs from Capel Garmon, Denbighshire,[244] now in the possession of Colonel Wynne Finch of Pentre Voelas, near Bettws-y-coed. The fire-dogs consist of two upright bars, each surmounted by the head of a beast with horns, and standing on an arched foot, connected near the bottom by a horizontal bar on which to rest the logs of wood used for the fire. The uprights are ornamented on each side with thinner pieces of iron bent into undulations and scrolls, and fixed to the uprights at intervals with rivets having large round heads. Each of the beasts’ heads has a very curious sort of crest ornamented with a row of circular holes and round knobs. Other fire-dogs of the same kind, made of plain iron bars, and with horned beasts’ heads on the top of the uprights (each horn terminating in a round knob), have been found at Mount Bures,[245] Essex, Hay Hill,[246] near Cambridge, and Stamfordbury,[247] Bedfordshire, associated with Romano-British burials.