The only objects of the Late-Celtic period which may conjecturally have been used for religious purposes are the little bronze figures of animals from Hounslow,[248] Middlesex, now in the British Museum. [244] _Archæologia Cambrensis_, ser. 6, vol. i., p. 40. [245] C. Roach Smith’s _Collectanea Antiqua_, vol. ii., p. 25. [246] _Archæologia_, vol. xix., p. 57. [247] _Publications of Cambridge Ant. Soc._ for 1845. [248] _Proc. Soc. Ant. Lond._, ser. 2, vol. iii., p. 90. Under the head of musical instruments come the bone flutes from Thor’s Cave, Staffordshire, and the magnificent bronze trumpet found in 1794 at Loughnashade, Co. Armagh, and now in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy at Dublin. Most of the trumpets of this kind are of the Bronze Age, but the style of the decoration on the annular disc at the mouth of the one from Loughnashade shows clearly that it is of the Iron Age.[249] [249] Sir W. Wilde’s _Catal._, pp. 627 and 631. Amongst the objects of unknown use of the Late-Celtic period are certain so-called spoons, some peculiar disc-and-hook ornaments, and a few highly ornamented circular pieces of repoussé bronze with a cup-shaped depression nearly in the centre. [Illustration: Late Celtic Brone Spoon from Brickhill Lance, London] [Illustration: Late Celtic Bronze Spoon from Crosby Ravensworth, Westmoreland] The spoon-like objects have been very fully dealt with in a paper by Mr. Albert Way in the _Archæological Journal_ (vol. xxvi., p. 52), and below is given a list of all the known specimens. [Illustration: Late Celtic Spoon. One of a pair from Weston, near Bath. Now in the Edinburgh Museum. Scale 1/1 linear] _List of Localities where Spoon-like Objects with Late-Celtic_ _Decoration have been found._ Crosby Ravensworth (British Mus.) Westmoreland. London, Brickhill Lane (British Mus.) Middlesex. London, Thames (British Mus.) Middlesex. Weston, near Bath (Edinburgh Mus.) Somersetshire. Llanfair (Edinburgh Mus.) Denbighshire. Penbryn (Ashmolean Mus.) Cardiganshire. Locality unknown (Liverpool Mus.) Ireland. Locality unknown (Dublin Mus.) Ireland. Walmer Kent. The body of these objects is shaped like a very shallow spoon with a pointed end, and the handle (if such it may be called) is circular or nearly circular, in many cases with two little round ears or projections at each side. The so-called spoons are generally found in pairs, one spoon having a cruciform design in the middle of the bowl; whilst its fellow has a small hole bored through the edge of the bowl. The handles of the spoons are always ornamented, sometimes on the front only, but more commonly on the back as well.