“It thus appears that these fine chains were in use among the Celtic peoples during the first two centuries before and after our era.[289] In Britain, however, the finest class is, as far as I am aware, confined to the latter half of this period; the chains attached to the earlier British fibulæ, like the one in the British Museum from the Warren,[290] near Folkestone, which may date from the second century B.C., being, like those referred to from the Champagne[291] cemeteries, of simpler and coarser construction.” [284] _The Reliquary_ for 1901, p. 198. [285] _Ibid._ for 1895, p. 157. [286] M. Stokes’ _Early Christian Art in Ireland_, p. 75. [287] _Jour. R. Soc. Ant. of Ireland_, ser. 5, vol. i., p. 318. [288] _Archæologia_, vol. lv., p. 396. [289] Dr. A. Evans appears to have forgotten the Christian survivals in Ireland. [290] _The Reliquary_ for 1901, p. 197. [291] The coarser chains are made of ordinary circular or oval links, sometimes double (see illustrations given in the _Dictionnaire Archéologique de la Gaule_ of those from the Marnian cemeteries). Ornamental ironwork of the Late-Celtic period is extremely rare, either because the smiths were too busily employed in making weapons for the warrior and tools for the artisan to devote their time to decorative work, or because the specimens of their handiwork have disappeared in consequence of the perishable nature of the material of which they were made. Fortunately, however, the fire-dogs from Capel Garmon,[292] now at Colonel Wynne Finch’s house at Voelas, are still in existence to show us what fine ornamental ironwork the Welsh smiths of the Romano-British period were capable of producing. Turning now from the metalwork to the pottery of the Late-Celtic period, we find it to consist of unglazed vessels made on a wheel, fired in a kiln, and ornamented either by mouldings or by patterns engraved on the surface with a pointed instrument. The technical processes employed in its manufacture do not seem to have differed essentially from those of the Romano-British potters, except that slip-ware was unknown. As far as I am aware, no painted pottery like that from Mont Beuvray[293] (Bibracte), nor vessels incrusted with pebbles and polished with graphite like the one from Plouhinec[294] (Finistère) now in M. Paul du Chatellier’s collection at the Château de Kernuz, near Quimper, have yet been discovered in this country. [292] _Archæologia Cambrensis_, ser. 6, vol. i., p. 39. [293] See J. G. Bulliot’s _Fouilles de Mont Beuvray._ [294] See _Revue Archéologique_ for 1883, p. 11. As far as the existing evidence goes no ornamental glasswork was made during the Late-Celtic period in Britain except certain beads and armlets already described. The technical process of manufacturing these beads consisted in twisting together fine rods of different coloured glass, and then bending the composite rod into loops round a mandril so as to form the bead.