An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . these three types are found in Britain and \\v. maytherefore brielly consider their occurrence there, and theirrelation to Late Keltic Art. The La Tene I typ(^ is a modified safety-pin in whichthe foot is turned back until it touches the bow. The pin Montelius, La Civilisation primitive en Italic (1895), p. Zannoni, op. cit.; Montelius, op. cit., p. v, Plates 100-6. FIBULA 307 forms one piece with the spring which has coils on bothsides of the bow. In a barrow at Cowlam in Yorkshire,containing- the remains of a woman, Canon Gree
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . these three types are found in Britain and \\v. maytherefore brielly consider their occurrence there, and theirrelation to Late Keltic Art. The La Tene I typ(^ is a modified safety-pin in whichthe foot is turned back until it touches the bow. The pin Montelius, La Civilisation primitive en Italic (1895), p. Zannoni, op. cit.; Montelius, op. cit., p. v, Plates 100-6. FIBULA 307 forms one piece with the spring which has coils on bothsides of the bow. In a barrow at Cowlam in Yorkshire,containing- the remains of a woman, Canon Greenwellfound, together with an armlet and a necklace of glassbeads, a fibula of this type. The original bronze pin hadbeen replaced by one of iron inserted into a piece of woodplaced within the spring.^ Fibulae of this form have beenfound, among other places, at Brentford Ferry, WaterEaton, and several sites in the Thames valley, at Avebury,and Box in Wiltshire, and Blandford in Dorset. Thistype may be decorated by ornamenting the bow or the Fig. 303.—La Tene fibula. Type Eaton, Oxon. (Natural size.) Fig. 304.—La Tene fibula. Type , Wilts. (Natural size.) In the Water Eaton specimen (Fig. 303) the bow is orna-mented with incised lines, chevrons, and circles, and thefoot terminates in a disk, on the upper surface of which arefive little engraved circles, with a central dot like those on thebow. The examples from Avebury (Fig. 304) and Blandfordhave the upper surface of the bow engraved with a line ofdots between two parallel lines, and the foot ends in aknob, in the former showing a depression probably oncefilled with coral. A grave in the remarkable prehistoriccemetery discovered at Harlyn Bay, near Padstow, inCornwall, contained two bronze La Tene fibulae of rare type(Fig. 305). Each of them has the turned up foot surmounted ^ British Barroivs, Fig. 111, p. * 3o8 PREHISTORIC ART with a large circular disk with moulded concentric lines onits upp
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