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170 special style of art: Arras, Cowlam, Grimthorpe, "Danes' Graves," near Kilham, and Scarborough Park, near Beverley (all in Yorkshire); Barlaston and Alstonfield (Staffordshire); Middleton Moor and Benty Grange (Derbyshire); the Cotteswold Hills, near Gloucester; Trelan Bahow, Parish of St. Keverne (Cornwall); Mount Batten, near Plymouth; Bigberry Hill, in Kent, etc. The Urn-field (cemetery) at Aylesford (Kent), described by Sir Arthur Evans, deserves special notice. Among the relics disinterred from this locality was a wooden pail or situla, having the upper of three bronze bands which surrounded the vessel, decorated with the forms of fantastic animals and scrolls in repoussé work, in the characteristic style of Late Celtic art. The relics also included a jug, a long-handled patella or pan and a couple of fibulæ of late La Tène types—all of bronze. The fibulæ and some cremated bones were inside the situla, while the jug, patella and a number of earthenware urns were placed close up to its outside. "We have here," writes the author, "for the first time a native example of an 'urn-field' belonging to the period that preceded the Roman invasion, the immediate antecedents of which are to be sought in the Belgic parts of Gaul."

Another remarkable bucket, which evidently belongs to the same class and period as that of Aylesford, was found near Marlborough about the year 1807, the remains of which are now preserved in the Devizes Museum, When