“Apart from the singular beauty of its decoration it is possessed of this special interest, that it is the only vessel of its kind and character known to exist in Scotland. It is, however, one of a class of objects, which, though few in number, are pretty widely distributed over the area, which may be termed the outskirts of the Roman Empire, towards the north and west—that is Britain, North Germany, and Scandinavia. We look in vain for anything like it within the area of the Roman Empire proper, and it may therefore be regarded as a product of a culture of some portion of the area of north-western Europe, where it was touched and modified by the Roman culture.” Other similar examples of enamelled vessels have been found at Braughing,[272] near Standon, Herts; the Bartlow Hills,[273] Essex; Maltbeck,[274] Denmark; and Pyrmont,[275] in the Rhine valley. In addition to these we have two other enamelled vessels, but differing in their style of ornament, one from Rudge,[276] Wilts, now in the Duke of Northumberland’s private museum at Alnwick Castle, and the other from Prickwillow,[277] Cambridgeshire, now in the British Museum. [272] _Proc. Soc. Ant. Lond._, 2nd ser., vol. iv., p. 514. [273] _Archæologia_, vol. xxvi., p. 300. [274] _Mém. de la Soc. Royale des Antiquaires du Nord_, 1866-71, p. 151. [275] _Jahrbücher des Vereins von Alterthumsfreunden in Rheinlande, heft_ 38, p. 47. [276] _Catal. of Mus. of R. Archæol. Inst. at Edinburgh_, 1856. [277] _Archæologia_, vol. xxviii., p. 436. Of the art of enamelling as carried on elsewhere than in Britain Dr. Anderson says:—[278] [278] _Loc. cit._, p. 49. “The Gauls as well as the Britons—of the same Celtic stock—practised enamel-working before the Roman conquest. The enamel workshops of Bibracte, with their furnaces, crucibles, moulds, polishing-stones, and with the crude enamels in their various stages of preparation, have been recently excavated from the ruins of the city destroyed by Cæsar and his legions. But the Bibracte enamels are the work of mere dabblers in the art compared with the British examples. The home of the art was Britain, and the style of the patterns as well as the associations in which the objects decorated with it were found, demonstrate with certainty that it had reached its highest stage of indigenous development before it came in contact with the Roman culture.” A full account of the discoveries made at Bibracte will be found in J. G. Bulliot’s _Fouilles de Mont Beuvray_. Several beautiful enamels have been derived from the Belgo-Roman cemetery at Presles. Romano-British enamels, without distinctively Celtic patterns upon them, have been dug up at many places in Great Britain, but more especially at Prickwillow.