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 DISCOVERED AT CAlilJI^KoN. 101 iiiciitcd ill the centre with vitreous paste or en.aincl, of a lead colour, or hght dull blue, much decayed by time. JSevci-al enamelled iibuhe of beautiful workmanship have been dis- covered at Caerleon ; some of these are represented in the " Delineations," before cited, plates xv., xvi.^ Amongst the numberless varieties of fibnhc, several resembling this in lashion have been found in England, but the central visage is a novelty. The acns was of iron. All these relics have been brought to light on the site of the extensive villa at Isca, discovered recently on the property of John Jenkins, Esq. Fig. 6.— A bronze fibula, of an unusual type, found some years since at Caerleon. It was bought by Mr. W. D. Evans, of Newport ; but happily, like other relics from Isca, it has been restored to the locality where it is doubly interesting, and is now in the Museum lately established at that place. A rectangular fibula of metal, of similar pierced work, was found in the remarkable deposit in Kelco Cave, near Settle, York- shire.^ Fibula) of difierent type, ornamented with somewhat similar triforiated work, have repeatedly been noticed amongst Romano -British antiquities. The unique silver ornaments found during the construction of the Ely and Peterborough railway, appear to have been wrought with pierced patterns of this kind. (Archaeol. Journal, vol. v., ]). 21.9.) The same peculiar motive of ornament appeared on two bow-shaped fibuhe, finmd near Horsham, and in the collection of the late Frederick Dixon, Esq. Similar fibula?, found with an inter- ment at Sutton Courtney, were exhibited by ][r. Jesse King, in the Museum of the Institute, during the Oxford meeting-.^ The peculiar type of decorative design, here seen, formed by a zigzag line, with intervening compartments, having an embattled appearance, deserves notice, as partaking of an Oriental character ; but more especially on account of its conformity with a conventional ornament of the borders in illuminated MSS. of the eighth and subsequent century, produced by the school of designers, which may be designated ' Several of these filiuUc, which may ' Collect. Aiitiqu. by Mr. C. R. Smith, be classed with the best examples of vol. i., pi. '26, p. 71. Roman cnainelleJ oniaiiieiits of this kind, - Amongst other examples may be cited were exliibitid in the iMuseuni of the one in Mr. Roach Smith's Aiitiqu. of ' Institute at the Lincoln Meeting, through Kichborough, p. 81, fig. 2; and another I the kindness of Mr. Jenkins, on whose found near Shorne. Journal Archaeol. estate at Caerleon so many curious relics Assoc, vol. iv. p. 406. havebeen disinterred, and by Mr. Lee.— Ed.