The style of the art of the two buckets is the same, and corresponds in some respects with that of the Gaulish coins,[300] and in others with that of the sword-sheaths from La Tène[301] and the bronze _situlæ_ from Hallstatt, Watsch, and Certosa.[302] Dr. Arthur Evans has dealt so exhaustively with the details of these buckets and the origins of the art they exhibit in his paper on the Aylesford find in the _Archæologia_,[303] that there is really little more to be said on the subject. It may, however, be worth while directing attention to the scrolls hanging down from the mouths of one of the pairs of beasts on the Marlborough bucket. Anyone unacquainted with the origin of these scrolls would probably mistake them for the animal’s tongue protruding from its mouth, but on comparing the designs on the Marlborough bucket with those on the _situlæ_ just referred to, the scrolls will be seen to be simply degraded copies of the branch of a tree on which the animal is feeding. The art metalworkers who made the _situlæ_ were, in fact, in the habit of using a simple convention for emphasising the difference between the herbivorous and carnivorous animals by showing, in one case, the branch of a tree, and in the other the leg of its prey protruding from its mouth. The Celtic copyists were either ignorant of this convention or disregarded it, so that in their hands both the branches and legs were soon converted into meaningless scrolls bearing hardly any resemblance to the original. Throughout the whole range of Celtic art there is displayed a tendency when dealing with plants and animals to transform first the details and afterwards the whole thing represented into curvilinear geometrical ornament. [300] _Dictionnaire Archéologique de la Gaule._ [301] E. Vouga, _Les Helvètes à La Tène_. [302] Illustrated in the second edition of Dr. R. Munro’s _Boznia-Herzegovina_, p. 407. [303] Vol. lii., p. 360. Besides the buckets just described, there are a few other examples of zoömorphic designs in Late-Celtic art, amongst which are the small bronze figures of animals found at Hounslow,[304] Middlesex, now in the British Museum; the bronze armlet, terminating in serpents’ heads, from the Culbin Sands,[305] Elginshire; the knife-handle, terminating in a bull’s head, from Birdlip,[306] Gloucestershire; the iron fire-dogs,[307] with uprights terminating in horned beasts’ heads, from Mount Bures, Essex, Hay Hill, Cambridgeshire, and Shefford, Bedfordshire; the horned bronze helmet from Torrs,[308] Kirkcudbrightshire, now at Abbotsford; the swine’s head from Liechestown,[309] Banffshire, now in the Banff Museum; and the bull’s head from Ham Hill,[310] Somerset, in the Taunton Museum. [304] _Proc. Soc. Ant. Lond._, ser. 2, vol. iii., p. 90. [305] Dr. J. Anderson’s _Scotland in Pagan Times: Iron Age_, p. 156. [306] _Trans. Bristol and Gloucestersh. Archæol. Soc._, vol. v., p. 137. [307] _Archæologia Cambrensis_, ser. 6, vol. i., p. 41.