An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . ally described by Pliny.^ From the Medi-terranean it was traded up the Rhone valley, and thusreached those districts of Gaul where it has been discoveredornamenting bronze. Strangely enough its discovery inthis connexion has been made only in certain restrictedparts. It is common only in Champagne, the country ofthe Remi, and especially in the department of Marne.^This may possibly be the result of this region having beenso much more thoroughly explored than any other, duepartly to Napoleon III making Chalons so often his head-quarters. Coral w
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . ally described by Pliny.^ From the Medi-terranean it was traded up the Rhone valley, and thusreached those districts of Gaul where it has been discoveredornamenting bronze. Strangely enough its discovery inthis connexion has been made only in certain restrictedparts. It is common only in Champagne, the country ofthe Remi, and especially in the department of Marne.^This may possibly be the result of this region having beenso much more thoroughly explored than any other, duepartly to Napoleon III making Chalons so often his head-quarters. Coral was among the many interesting relicsrecovered from the chariot burials of La Gorge Meillet andSomme Bionne in this district. As we have seen thereis orood CTfound for referrinor these burials to the fourth ^ Proc. Soc, A?itiq., 2nd Series, xxii., p. Boyd Dawkins, Cave Bunting, p 98, Plate, Fig. 307.^ Naf. Hist., xxxii., 21. ^Cf. Corail dans IIndustrie Celtique, par S. Reinach, RevueCeltique, xxii. (1899), pp. 13 and 118. 300 PREHISTORIC ART. century before the Christian Era. In M. S, Reinachsopinion, coral fell into disuse in Gaul about 300 ,for whilst found associated with amber and glass beads,coins have never been discovered with it.^ This disusemay well have been the result of its growing scarcity due to its increasing exportto India where it washighly prized.^ It wasdoubtless superseded byenamel then coming intouse. From Gaul coralfound its way into Britainwhere it was also em-ployed for ornamentationin the Early Iron JVitkcun Shield aswe have seen, was decor-ated with coral fixed byrivets. A bronze cup3f inch in diameter froma Late Celtic burial atColchester has its handleornamented at the pointwith a piece of coral.^It was also used to decorate sword sheaths as those fromBugthorpe and Grimthorpe in the East Riding of York-
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