An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . open as in a specimen fromGlastonbury,- and a broken specimen from it becomes partly filled with some ornamental motive,as in a silver brooch from Great Chesterford (Fig. 308), inEssex, and in a bronze specimen taken from the Thames.*Finally, it became quite filled in, thus forming a plate, wellseen in an example from Glastonbury.^ A surface was thus 1 Glastonbury Lake Village, by HuUeid and Gray, Plate XL, Fig. E, 173- 2 Ibid., Plate XL, Fig. E, 185. ^ ArchcBologia, lii., Fig. 19, p. 38. 4 Most of these fibulae are in the Brit.
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . open as in a specimen fromGlastonbury,- and a broken specimen from it becomes partly filled with some ornamental motive,as in a silver brooch from Great Chesterford (Fig. 308), inEssex, and in a bronze specimen taken from the Thames.*Finally, it became quite filled in, thus forming a plate, wellseen in an example from Glastonbury.^ A surface was thus 1 Glastonbury Lake Village, by HuUeid and Gray, Plate XL, Fig. E, 173- 2 Ibid., Plate XL, Fig. E, 185. ^ ArchcBologia, lii., Fig. 19, p. 38. 4 Most of these fibulae are in the Brit. Museum, and are figured inthe official Gtiide to the Early Iron Age, by Mr. K. A. Smith. I amindebted to the Museum authorities for permission to reproduce them. ^ Op. cit., Plate XL, Fig. E, 20. 3IO PREHISTORIC ART provided capable of decorative treatment. This is well illus-trated by a pair of silver-gilt brooches discovered at Back-worth in Northumberland (Fig. 309). These probably datefrom Roman times, for with them were coins of Antoninus. Fig. 308.—La Tene fibula. Type III. Great Chesterford, Essex. (Two-thirds size.) Pius, but the character of the design ornamenting the plateunmistakably bespeaks the Late Keltic artist. This broochnaturally leads to the consideration of another which wasprobably made towards the end of the second century
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