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 ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS A similar discovery at Dover may be conveniently noticed here. Several enamelled discs were found in the Old Park in 1861, comprising four virith a curvilinear swastika in the centre (one retaining its hook, as fig. 24), a narrow curved band' enamelled in the same style as the border of the discs, a hooked disc of similar dimensions but with star centre and a border of running scrolls, and two smaller discs, one having a kind of handle. Unfortunately there is no further record of the discovery, but there can be little doubt that all belonged to a bronze bowl (possibly two), and metal strips have been found in such associ- ation on more than one occasion. Though their Celtic origin is evident, the precise use and date of these enamelled bowls have still to be de- termined. These discs were presented to the Dover Museum by Mr. W. Clayton. Mention may here also be made of some enamelled discs, evidently from a bowl of similar kind, found in 1862 near the site of the Old Tilt Yard at Greenwich on the north side of the Hospital. The design' is of Celtic origin, and is thrown up by red champleve enamel, while the diameter of i inch is about the average, somewhat larger than those from Lullingstone. The work was at the time referred by John Brent to the seventh cen- tury, after the conversion of Kent ; and the three discs, with one of the frames provided with a hook for the suspending chain (see fig. 24), were transferred by him to the Canterbury Museum. Among so much that is pre-eminently Kentish, there are a few ornaments that show intercourse with the Continent, whether by ^ ^ 1 ■ ■ A Fic;- 24. Enamelled Escutcheon way or commerce or colonisation. A com- ^f Bowl, Greenwich ([). mon Rhenish and Burgundian type of brooch, with peculiar animal-head terminal, has two representatives in Kent, one from Gilton' being without the radiations from the head that are seen in the illustration (pi. ii. fig. 5) ; the original is in Canterbury Museum, but the locality unknown. On the same plate (fig. 3) is a bronze-gilt brooch, quite exceptional in England, and most probably imported from Denmark in the fifth century. Scandinavian influence is evident in the few 'long' brooches found in the county (as Lyminge), terminating in a head seen from above and somewhat resembling that of a horse, the eyes and nostrils being exag- gerated. A large specimen is published from Gilton,' but the small size is more usual, and has been found at Faversham, Lyminge (fig. 14), and Bifrons.' Radiated brooches, which seem to belong to the middle 1 A similar fragment found near Dover was given to the British Museum by Samuel Lysons. 2 Proc. Soc. Antiq. Land. 2nd ser. ii. 202. ^ Jrch. xxx. pi. xi. fig. 3. « Arch. XXX. pi. xi. fig. 6. « Arch. Cant. x. pp. 305, 308 (two). 379