An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . n theBirdlip spe^cimen.^ Scotland supplies another example-. It was recoveredfrom a bog in the parish of Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbright- 1 Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society, v., yt. 157 ; a fineillustration of it is given in ArchcRologia, , Plate 42.^ Arc/ueologia, LXi., p. 329, Plate XLIII.^ ArchcBological Journal, xxxi., p. 71. LATE KELTIC ART 265 shire (Fig. 279). With it were other bronze objects, themost interesting being- part of a crescentic collar-like plate,decorated with striking Late Keltic ornament recalling theinvolve
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . n theBirdlip spe^cimen.^ Scotland supplies another example-. It was recoveredfrom a bog in the parish of Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbright- 1 Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society, v., yt. 157 ; a fineillustration of it is given in ArchcRologia, , Plate 42.^ Arc/ueologia, LXi., p. 329, Plate XLIII.^ ArchcBological Journal, xxxi., p. 71. LATE KELTIC ART 265 shire (Fig. 279). With it were other bronze objects, themost interesting being- part of a crescentic collar-like plate,decorated with striking Late Keltic ornament recalling theinvolved circles on the Lisnacroghera scabbard. The diskis 8 inches in diameter with a rolled border, and differsfrom the preceding in being unengraved. The handle, 5inches long, is also plain, but it is pierced with three seg-mental orifices together forming the curves of divergentspirals. The ornamental part of this mirror consists of aplate that hides the riveted union of handle and disk (). This beautiful little piece of work is described by. Fig. 280.—Ornamented plate of Balmaclellan mirror. Dr. Joseph Anderson as presenting a pattern composedof those peculiar raised surfaces formed by the meeting ofcurves rising from the flat at different angles, and travers-ing the around also in curves which converoe and diverorein a manner pleasing to the eye, but difficult to upper part of this plate is trilobate, the lobes boundedby curves of peculiar form, and bordered by an edging ofstuds embossed on the metal. ^ A bronze mirror with a triple scroll pattern engravedon the back, and recalling strikingly the design on the ^ Scotland in Pagan Times, Iron Age, p. 127, Figs. 103, 104. , 279, 280 are from this work. 266 PREHISTORIC ART Trelan Bahovv example, is now in the Mayer Museum atLiverpool, Whence it came is not certainly known, butpossibly from the Thames.^ Two incomplete mirrors found at Billericay, Essex, ini860 (one oval in shape 7^ inches wide and handl
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