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Pattern and Purpose: a Survey of Early Celtic Art in Britain. By SirCyril Fox. 10½ × 8¼. Pp. xxix + 160 with 80 plates. Cardiff. The National Museum of Wales. 1958. 45s.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

E. M. Jope
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 39 , Issue 1-2 , April 1959 , pp. 127 - 129
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1959

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1 The openwork discs from the Thames at Hammersmith might have been noted: Brit. Mus. E.I.A. Guide (1925), p. 147.

2 Jacobsthal (Early Celtic Art (1944), p. 211, a note usually overlooked) was on reflection inclined to consider the Cerrig y Drudion bowl (of which Sir Cyril emphasizes the true importance, p. xxv), had been made in Britain by an immigrant Gaulish craftsman. Cf. also Frey, O. H., in Au Musée de Besançon, 1 (1955), 14–30.Google Scholar

3 This sword has a chape not of bronze (p. 14), but of finely wrought iron (Case, J. J., in Rep. Oxon. Archaeol. Soc. lxxxvii, 1949, 7–8)Google Scholar, which seems a continental feature.

4 This seems to have first appeared in J. M. Navarro's valuable section on chronology in Wheeler, R.E.M., Maiden Castle (1943), pp. 388–94Google Scholar, and has since been perpetuated.

5 Ulster J. Archaeol. xvii (1954), 81 ff.

6 Ibid. 93–94; cf. ibid., xx (1957), 73 ff.