IX.—On a Late-Celtic Mirror found at Desborough, Northants, and other Mirrors of the Period

Reginald A. Smith

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IX.—On a Late-Celtic Mirror found at Desborough, Northants, and other Mirrors of the Period

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Reginald A. Smith

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Ironstone-digging for commercial purposes has resulted in numerous archaeological discoveries over wide areas in Northants and Rutland, as well as in certain parts of adjoining counties, but the conditions of the work render supervision difficult and delay practically impossible. The rescue of antiquities from time to time by the workmen must therefore be considered as a lucky accident, and it is only occasionally that trustworthy information as to the association of objects can be obtained. Still rarer is the preservation of an artistic specimen in a fairly perfect state, and the recent discovery of an Early British bronze mirror at Desborough is therefore notable on more than one account.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , 1909 , pp. 329 - 346

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900010109 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1909

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^{page 329 note a} Proceedings, 2nd S. xxii. 333Google Scholar.

^{page 329 note b} Now in the British Museum: Victoria History of Northants, i. 237; necklace, fig. 2 on coloured plate.

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^{page 330 note c} Vol. lx. 294.

^{page 330 note d} Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, iv. 266Google Scholar; Archaeological Journal, xxx. 267Google Scholar, with illustration of mirror. Trelan is said to mean a furzy place. Early Iron Age Guide (British Museum), fig. 91.

^{page 331 note a} Illustrated in Archaeologia, xl. pl. xxx-xxxii. p. 500Google Scholar; Transactions of the Devonshire Association, i. (1864), 123Google Scholar.

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^{page 332 note a} Compare that from Ham Hill, Somerset (Proceedings, 2nd S. xxi. 133Google Scholar), and complete animals from Veirupgaard, Fyen, Denmark (Mém. de la Soc. des Antiq. du Nord, 1866–71, p. 161, fig. 3); from the entrance to Byčiskala grotto, Moravia, (Mitt, der Anthrop. Gesellschaft in Wien, vii. (1877), 125)Google Scholar, and another with tipped horns from Tissö, Denmark (Aarböger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed, 1892, p. 230Google Scholar).

^{page 332 note b} This pattern is discussed in Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society, N.S. vii. 95Google Scholar; Iron Age Guide, 103.

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^{page 335 note a} The same motive occurs on a bronze disc from the chariot-burial at Arras, E. R. Yorks. figured in Archacologia, lx. 284, fig. 27Google Scholar. See also the Old Warden and Desborough mirrors.

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^{page 336 note a} The objects and a large quantity of wrought iron were all found together from 2 feet to 3 feet underground. Compare the Stamford Hill find, supra.

^{page 336 note b} Plate vi. fig. 9; the other fragments are figs. 5, 6.

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^{page 342 note a} As in many brooches of La Tène III. type in Britain and abroad; see Iron Age Guide, fig. 83, and a magnificent unpublished specimen of unknown locality now exhibited in the British Museum.

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^{page 344 note b} S. Müller, Ordning af Danmarks Oldsager (Jernalderen), figs. 94, 97. There are 50 specimens in Copenhagen Museum from Jutland and Fyen.

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^{page 346 note b} Archaeologia, xxvi. 467Google Scholar; C. R. Smith, Roman London, 129; Proceedings 2nd S. iii. 55, iv. 433, xi. 13Google Scholar, and several in the British Museum.

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