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Rh Another interesting trace of late Celtic art in Buckinghamshire is furnished by some pottery found at Aston Clinton, and now in the museum at Aylesbury. Dr. Arthur J. Evans refers to this pottery as being of the same general character as that found at Aylesford, Kent, and tapering off to a pedestal below.



In the remarkable bronze fibula found at Datchet Old Ford we have another example of the wonderful and versatile ingenuity of the late Celtic people. It is almost four inches in length, and may be described as of cruciform plan and of a bow-like general form. The sharp end of the pin is protected in a similar way to the modern safety-pin. It is ornamented with seven beads of amber and two of blue coloured glass, all of a somewhat flattened globular form. It must have formed an effective and useful ornament. It may be considered to be of the late Celtic period, although it is of rather unusual character.

The brooch was found by a dredger in the River Thames, and exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 24 May 1894.