The Archaeological journal . may mentionthat he has very obligingly sent me. drawings of several bronzepins which he considers bear a family likeness to this object,which he speaks of as a bronze pin longer and somewhat differentin form from any thing of the kind which Ik; has seen. He regardsit as belonging to quite the close of the Bronze Period, as itsanalogies seem rather with late Celtic objects. Coming as they dofrom one of our highest living authorities, the value of these remarks,especially in assigning an approximative date to these objects, will beduly appreciated. In point of form,
The Archaeological journal . may mentionthat he has very obligingly sent me. drawings of several bronzepins which he considers bear a family likeness to this object,which he speaks of as a bronze pin longer and somewhat differentin form from any thing of the kind which Ik; has seen. He regardsit as belonging to quite the close of the Bronze Period, as itsanalogies seem rather with late Celtic objects. Coming as they dofrom one of our highest living authorities, the value of these remarks,especially in assigning an approximative date to these objects, will beduly appreciated. In point of form, the Taunton latchet appearsto me to hold an intermediate place between this British broochand the Irish spectacle-brooch, resembling the former in having the openring instead of the solid disc, and the latter in the partially curvedcharacter of its stem, as shown (one-third full size) in the engraving. The 1 Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archicological Society, vol. i, p. 51. THE ANCIENT SITE OF TAUNTON BY THE BRITONS. V7. beautiful green colour and polished .surface exhibited by these Tauntonremains are due to their having acquired a patina or coating of malachite,formed on their surface in the long process of centuries, and which israrely seen in greater perfection. Various theories have from time to time been proposed to account forthe singular fact that numerous groups of British remains similar to thepresent have so frequently been discovered buried in the way describedin this instance. It was suggested by Stukeley that members of theDruidic order, or those holding the Druidic faith, resorted to this practiceof thus laying by these objects when they embraced has been stated also that about the period referred to, several edictswere issued by the Roman senate; Phelps2 refers to one 179, for theabolition of the Druidic superstition, or the suppression of Druidism. Itwould therefore seem not altogether unreasonable to suppose that indeference either t
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